View from Neuchatel-Chaux de Fonds train Tuesday late afternoon: icy roads, plenty of snow

Neuchatel, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 67-year-old man and the conductor plus 97 passengers of a TGV traveling between Bern and Paris were happily unhurt when the man’s car, stranded on a TGV line near Bayards, canton Neuchatel, was hit by the train. The accident occurred Tuesday evening 9 February at 20:35, say police. Train service on the line was re-established only at 17:30 Wednesday evening. Travelers scheduled to take the TGV via Neuchatel were shunted to Basel and Lausanne for other trains.

The man had lost control of his car, which skidded onto the rails and was stuck there.

He left the car to ask for help at a neighbour’s house but did not have time to contact the CFF or SNCF rail companies before the TGV high-speed train arrived. He tried in vain to signal to the TGV driver. He was slightly injured by the accident and was treated in hospital for shock.

The impact sent his car some 20 metres (see TSR photo).

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