Talk:List of TGV accidents

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Fatalities[edit]

The introduction for this article states that there have been no fatalities on TGV trains, but at the end of the introduction for TGV, it says (emphasis added):

The TGV is generally a safe mode of transport, but there have been accidents; there have been train passenger fatalities twice from collisions and once due to terrorism, but nothing like the Eschede train disaster.

Which one of these are correct? -- Imperator3733 (talk) 02:21, 3 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Both. The article states "The safety figures for the TGV system are exceptional; there have been no fatalities in high-speed operation since service started in 1981.". All the deaths happened on low speed lines, which are not as well protected as high speed lines (high speed lines are fenced off, they have no level crossings and so on). HughesJohn (talk) 13:58, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Terrorism[edit]

This page says: "31 December 1983: Terrorist bombing [...] Injuries: 5 dead, 50 injured". TGV says "31 December 1983: A bomb allegedly planted by the terrorist organisation of Carlos the Jackal exploded on board a TGV from Marseille to Paris; two people were killed.". Which is correct. HughesJohn (talk) 14:02, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, the TGV page says 2 people were killed on the TGV, so, the other 3 were killed at Marseilles. HughesJohn (talk) 14:05, 8 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Citation[edit]

Why is there no citation or references here? 81.111.115.63 (talk) 13:17, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment[edit]

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:List of TGV accidents/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

10 million passenger-kilometres per year sounds a bit low. I understand this is only on high-speed tracks, but nonetheless, if an average journey was 150 km, with 100 people on a train, this works out to be (just) under 2 train trips per day.

150 kilometres x 100 passengers/train x 2 trains/day x 365 days/year = 10,950,000 passenger-kilometres per year.

I'm guessing it should just be 10 million kilometres per year, but I'm having trouble find confirmation. Disturbingly, the 10 million passenger-kilometres figure is mentioned often.

Substituted at 21:50, 26 June 2016 (UTC)