Images from railtrack company Infrabel from a camera at a level crossing in Beclers (Tournai – Hainaut Province) show a farmer’s narrow escape when his trailer gets stuck on the track as a high-speed train approaches.
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See how a high-speed TGV ploughs into a trailer stuck on a level crossing in Tournai (VIDEO)
Colin Clapson
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The farmer drives onto the level crossing. The trailer gets stuck and dislocates from the tractor. The farmer steps out to investigate. Seconds later a bell sounds and the barriers go down as a high-speed TGV train from Lille heading for Brussels approaches. The train crashes into the trailer and drags it along for many yards. Two passengers on the train are injured: one more seriously than the other. The farmer has a narrow escape. Rail services to the UK are halted as London is briefly cut off till services can resume via a different route. Eurostar traffic between Amsterdam, Brussels and London is disrupted for the whole day.