A lorry carrying timber cut from a wood unaccountably turned onto the railway line where a TGV headed for Bordeaux was due. The train managed to make an emergency stop and passengers suffered a few minor injuries. Presently no one knows how the lorry managed to get onto the line as it was not near a level crossing. It is thought that the driver was on an old forest track at the time.
The report into the crash at Pau between a TGV and TER train suggests that the signal which should have been red was stuck at green due to a short circuit in the cable due to its having been gnawed by rats.
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