Using the danger, or on the contrary to rub it, a 15 -year -old adolescent has climbed a wagon parked on a railroad in Gennevilliers. Too close to the catenary, he caught fire and was hospitalized in serious condition.
The accident occurred in the early evening, between 7:30 p.m. and 7:45 p.m. The teenager is accompanied by a friend, a 14 -year -old boy. Without that it is not yet known by what access, the duo joins the railroad tracks which run along rue Alfred-Suquet, in the port of Gennevilliers.
This is where the merchandise trains pass in particular, according to employees in the sector. On the central track, reserved for the service, is a single wagon in the shape of a tank. At the rear, a ladder allows you to get on the roof.
The teenager climbs the few bars of the small scale to find himself on the roof of the wagon, surrounded by high -voltage line pillars, and overlooked by a catenary. “He touched the catenary and it caused an explosion,” summarizes a police source. Unless the young man only approached the catenary too closely, which has triggered an electric arc, it is unknown for the moment. In any case, it is by the skull that he is electrified, before his clothes ignite and his skin burns. The violence of electrization makes it fall to the ground.
Her boyfriend is working to try to remove the clothes on fire. He burns himself in the hands and will only be slightly injured. But harshly shocked.
The scene took place before the eyes of an employee in the sector who immediately called the help. The oldest of the two adolescents, from Gennevilliers as his boyfriend, was transported in absolute emergency to the Percy hospital, where the burnish is treated.
