This morning, an electric bus went up in smoke in Carcassonne.
It was while passing under the Quai Riquet railway bridge, near the station, that the vehicle, in which only the driver was on board, struck the arch of the railway structure and a spark was produced at the level of the air conditioning on its roof and a fire broke out.
Firefighters responded and brought the blaze under control by mid-morning.
#Video #Carcassonne: an electric #bus totally destroyed by a #fire under a bridge, the circulation of #trains interrupted between #Narbonne and #Toulouse #sncf #accident #aude #sdis11
►https://t.co/9jTHHgVplj pic .twitter.com/JIu2rNnyUA
– France 3 Occitanie (@F3OccitanieLR) April 29, 2022
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This accident, however, led to the cessation of train traffic shortly after 9 a.m. this Friday between Toulouse and Narbonne.
🔴 11:07
a.m. ⚠️ The intervention of the teams on site is longer than expected.
Security checks will then be necessary to allow the trains to run again
The recovery is announced from 3
p.m. ➕ info on your trip ⤵️
– liO Train SNCF Occitanie (@lio_train_sncf) April 29, 2022
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An interruption that will last until at least 3 p.m. according to the SNCF, which must check the safety of the bridge structure to find out if it has not suffered damage following the fire.
In the meantime, replacement buses are being put in place.
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