Eckwersheim derailment

On 14 November 2015, a TGV train derailed in Eckwersheim, Alsace, France, while being tested on the second phase of the LGV Est high-speed rail line, which was scheduled to open for commercial service five months later. The derailment resulted in 11 deaths and 42 injuries. It was the first fatal derailment in the history of the TGV and the third derailment since the TGV entered commercial service in 1981.

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