They bear the name of Écommoy, Audrieu, Wavrin, La Gouesnière.
Municipalities of less than 10,000 inhabitants, scattered across the four corners of France.
What do they have in common?
Be included on the
“black list”
of fatal accidents occurring at stations.
In these rural services, travelers have no choice but to cross the tracks to reach their trains.
In the absence of underground passages or footbridges, they take simple planked passages at the risk, sometimes, of losing their lives.
At the start of the year, two young women were mowed down by a train while using these pedestrian crossings installed on the tracks.
Enough to relaunch the debate on the dangerousness of small French stations and question the responsibility of public authorities.
There are 860
“
pedestrian track crossings
”
(TVP) on French rail, most of which are equipped with a light signal and visual signage.
The observation of their dangerousness is not new: since 1973, the authorities have recorded more than 350 fatal accidents, to which must be added those at level crossings (PN) used by pedestrians.
At the turn of the 2000s, the securing of certain services, combined with preventive actions, made it possible to reduce…
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