La locomotive qui a eu l'#accident avec le transport exceptionnel au PN 41 à #Nangis #QML #SNCF pic.twitter.com/plumBoyuix
Thirty people have been injured after a passenger train collided with a special convoy articulated lorry 50km from Paris on Tuesday 21 April
which was travelling from Belfort to Paris with 350 on board
rammed into the lorry at a level crossing in Nangis
where the vehicle that was transporting tractors had stopped for unknown reasons
The shock was so violent that five train cars derailed
two people including the train driver and a passenger are critically injured
They were transported to hospital and their prognosis is not yet known
at the entrance of Nangis Station to the east of Paris
was "not particularly accident-prone," the city mayor Michel Billout said
The French Ministry of the Interior tweeted a series of photos
showing the violent impact between the two vehicles
#Nangis : @Gendarmerie procède aux opérations de constatation après l'accident survenu entre poids-lourd & train pic.twitter.com/EXCq5gCN2p
"We felt shaking and we started to slow down [and heard] a big boom," one of the passengers
The young man explained that the truck was "split in two"