Auxerre english summary

GB_PN

Publié le 31/08/2023

On Sunday 14 January 2018 at about 5:34 pm, crossing the hamlet of Jonches, which is on Auxerre’s municipal territory on the Yonne, a light vehicle travelling on the RN 77 with two people on board was stopped between the barriers at level crossing no. 19 at the railway line from Auxerre to Laroche-Migennes, was struck by a TER from the Auxerre Saint-Gervais station.
Both occupants of the light vehicle were killed in this collision.

The direct cause of the accident was the sudden restart of the light vehicle, moving forward when the train arrived. The vehicle had been stopped before between the railway track and the half-barrier without encroaching on the area where the train passed by.
Available information made it impossible to reconstruct with certainty the circumstances preceding the accident, in particular because it was not possible to collect useful data for analysis in the light vehicle’s computers. However, BEA-TT believes that two factors probably contributed to the accident occurring :
- the telephone conversation held by the driver, which may have disrupted her perception of events, and her decision-making ;
- reduced visibility of the tracks from the space at which the vehicle was stopped.

Analysis of this accident led BEA-TT to issue an invitation and recommendation related
to :
- communication activities to remind people of the dangers of using the telephone while driving ;
- equipping vehicles with an event data recorder that records some operating parameters in the moments before and after a collision ; these should be used to improve safety.

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