The latest wagon of a small tourist train overturned Thursday at midday on the Sanguire Route in Ajaccio, making 12 injured, including four serious among which a child, the prosecutor and the prefecture of Corse-du-Sud told AFP.
This accident in which “around forty people are involved” made “four seriously injured, for the time being without committed vital prognosis, and eight light injuries,” the director of cabinet of the prefect, Florian Sterser, told AFP, adding that injuries were mainly “crash of members”.
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This small train contained 58 passengers, 43 of which are involved in the accident, Ajaccio prosecutor Nicolas Septe told AFP. An investigation was opened and the train driver was placed in police custody, added the magistrate, adding that “first information could suggest that the speed is in question”.
A procession of six rescue vehicles evacuated the first injured, noted an AFP journalist, while the city was bottled following the closure of a part of the Sanguinaires road, 7 kilometers long and which runs along the sea.
“Since the start, he was riding very very quickly and in the end he took the roundabout so quickly that the last wagon in which we had turned against a sidewalk. We were lucky, we have nothing, only scratches, “said Géraldine, a passenger of the rugged wagon, on the radio here RCFM. The young woman was on the little train with her spouse and two children.
“We were very afraid,” she added, saying that he was on the first day of her vacation and saying that he intends to file a complaint.
