The 86-year-old motorist who was seriously injured on Wednesday at a level crossing in a collision with the Pignes train which links Nice to Digne-les-Bains (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence) has died, a announced this Friday the Paca region. The accident occurred at Mure-Argens at a level crossing materialized by a stop sign but not by automatic barriers.
Respect for the stop sign?
An investigation was opened by the Digne-les-Bains prosecution and entrusted to the gendarmerie of Colmars-les-Alpes, supported by the Research Brigade (BR) of Castellane. It will have to determine in particular if the motorist respected this stop before the passage of the train, which transported ten travelers and two personnel who were not injured.
Operated by the region and transporting 430,000 travelers per year, especially in urban areas in the agglomeration of Nice and the Var plain, this train, which connects Nice to Digne in more than three hours, is one of the most original in France .
151 km long, using 25 tunnels, thirty bridges and viaducts on the mountainside, its route is very popular with tourists.
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