A crack that developed quickly and suddenly?
Or a maintenance defect that made the derailment inevitable?
This Tuesday, May 24, at the trial of the Brétigny-sur-Orge rail disaster, the criminal court of Évry-Courcouronnes (Essonne) returned at length to the possible failures in the surveillance of the infrastructures.
According to experts, it was a crack spotted in 2008 on the crossing core, the switchgear allowing one railway line to cross another, which is the cause of the disaster.
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