{"id":4748,"date":"2026-04-07T11:09:47","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:09:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4748"},"modified":"2026-04-07T11:09:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T11:09:47","slug":"multiple-injured-following-high-speed-train-crash-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4748","title":{"rendered":"Multiple injured following high speed train crash in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>The driver has been killed<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Multiple people are injured following a high speed train crash in France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The incident happened this morning in the Pas-de-Calais region of the north of France involving a TGV train (high speed train) and a heavy truck carrying military equipment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The crash happened at a level crossing in Mazingarbe as per Franceinfo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The news of the crash was announced on Tuesday morning on X by Transport Minister Phillipe Tabarot who wrote: &#8220;An accident involving a heavy weight vehicle and a TGV train occurred this morning between B\u00e9thune and Lens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Images from the incident have been circulating online, showing the smashed front of the train.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The train was carrying 250 passengers when it derailed after hitting the truck, killing the driver and injuring around 27 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Seven of these are thought to be lightly injured.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>The condition of the other 20 has not been disclosed.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Multiple #injured #high #speed #train #crash #France<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The driver has been killed Multiple people are injured following a high speed train crash in France. The incident happened this morning in the Pas-de-Calais region of the north of France involving a TGV train (high speed train) and a heavy truck carrying military equipment. The crash happened at a level crossing in Mazingarbe as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[35,982,821,473,2114,3815,923,4369,4924,1568,4925,1668],"class_list":{"0":"post-4748","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-crash","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france","11":"tag-high","12":"tag-injured","13":"tag-multiple","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-speed","16":"tag-tgv","17":"tag-train","18":"tag-train-crash","19":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4748\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}