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Pas-de-Calais crossing barriers worked properly when 13-year-old was killed by TER train

From Le Figaro · () French

Translated from French and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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Newswire Named sources Under investigation
  • A 13-year-old boy died after a TER regional train struck him at a level crossing in Roeux, near Arras, on Sunday evening.
  • The Arras prosecutor’s office said initial investigations indicated that the crossing barriers had worked properly.
  • An inquiry into the causes of death is under way, while a victims’ support association is assisting the boy’s relatives and three other adolescents who were present.

Initial findings indicate that the barriers at a level crossing in Roeux, Pas-de-Calais, worked properly when a 13-year-old boy was hit and killed by a regional TER train on Sunday evening.

The Arras prosecutor’s office said the teenager had been riding a scooter with a group of friends of the same age. Three adolescents, including some travelling on scooters, managed to cross. The fourth, riding a kick scooter, crossed as the barriers were coming down and was struck by the train, according to a gendarmerie source.

The prosecutor’s office said investigators were still conducting interviews to establish the precise circumstances of the death. An inquiry into the causes of death was opened immediately and assigned to the gendarmerie brigade in Vis-en-Artois.

The victim’s age had previously been reported as 14 by the prefecture. France Victimes 62 was asked by the prosecutor’s office to support the boy’s relatives and the three young people who were at the crossing when the incident occurred.

The barriers worked properly.

— Arras prosecutor’s officeThe prosecutor’s office described the conclusion of the initial investigation into the level crossing.
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Originally published by Le Figaro in French. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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