{"id":121380,"date":"2026-08-27T15:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/121380\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T15:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T15:14:14","slug":"french-alps-cable-car-accident-in-alpe-dhuez-leaves-23-injured-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/121380\/","title":{"rendered":"French Alps cable car accident in Alpe d\u2019Huez leaves 23 injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A cable car hit a crane in the French resort of Alpe d\u2019Huez leaving 23 injured, three critically, officials said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>There were about 50 people in the cabin of the cable car when the accident happened Wednesday morning at an altitude of 2300m, Alpe d\u2019Huez Mayor Jean-Yves Noyrey told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are mainly people in shock and cases of concussion,\u201d Noyrey said, adding he believed most of the injured had left hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Cable cars are designed to stabilise themselves if they brake suddenly, but \u201con hitting the crane, the car tilted, and the people inside slid\u201d, the mayor said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey thought they were going to die, but the operator reacted well by reversing to level the cabin.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The regional prefecture said there were 23 injured, with three in critical condition and 13 with severe injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A cable car hit a crane in the French resort of Alpe d\u2019Huez leaving 23 injured, three critically,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[16],"tags":[50,59198,59197],"class_list":["post-121380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alps","tag-alps","tag-cablecaraccident","tag-frenchalps"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117168129096291019","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121380","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=121380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}