{"id":121174,"date":"2026-08-27T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/121174\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T08:30:09","slug":"three-in-critical-condition-french-alps-cable-car-accident-leaves-23-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/121174\/","title":{"rendered":"Three in critical condition: French Alps cable car accident leaves 23 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There were about 50 people in the cabin of the cable car when the accident happened Wednesday morning at at altitude of 2,300 metres (7,500 feet), Alpe d&#8217;Huez mayor Jean-Yves Noyrey told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There are mainly people in shock and cases of concussion,&#8221; Noyrey said, adding that he believed most of the injured had left hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Cable cars are designed to stabilize themselves if they brake suddenly, but &#8220;on hitting the crane, the car tilted, and the people inside slid&#8221;, the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They thought they were going to die,&#8221; he added, &#8220;but the operator reacted well by reversing to level the cabin.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The regional prefecture said there were 23 injured, with three in critical condition and 13 with severe injuries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There were about 50 people in the cabin of the cable car when the accident happened Wednesday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121175,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-121174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117166540356064907","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121174\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}