{"id":3190,"date":"2026-04-07T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3190\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T09:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T09:29:14","slug":"one-dead-after-high-speed-train-crashes-into-lorry-in-northern-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/3190\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead after high-speed train crashes into lorry in northern France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A high-speed train carrying several hundred passengers derailed after colliding with a lorry in northern France, French media reported on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The driver of the TGV train was killed and 27 passengers were injured, according to preliminary police information cited by broadcaster TF1.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">French Transport Minister Philippe Tabarot announced that he would travel to the scene of the accident between the towns of B\u00e9thune and Lens in the Pas-de-Calais region together with rail chief Jean Castex.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The crash happened at a level crossing in the town of N\u0153ux-les-Mines, outside the French high-speed network. The TGV was travelling at the speed of a regular train.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Newspaper La Voix du Nord (The Voice of the North) reported that the train collided with the trailer of a lorry transporting army vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Photos shared by an official from the rail union showed the train\u2019s generator car badly damaged and off the tracks. The union official said that only a week earlier a heavy army transport had become stuck at a level crossing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A high-speed train carrying several hundred passengers derailed after colliding with a lorry in northern France, French media&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,3160,3157,3159,3158],"class_list":{"0":"post-3190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-france","9":"tag-level-crossing","10":"tag-northern-france","11":"tag-philippe-tabarot","12":"tag-tgv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}