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400 Passengers Onboard High-Speed Train Survive Near-Miss After Driver Jumps from Cab on Christmas Eve
“The entire railway family is in mourning,” French railway company SCNF said in a statement to PEOPLE after the driver died by suicideMore than 400 train passengers avoided harm on Christmas Eve after a driver jumped from the cab, leaving the train unmanned, the company says.
The company said that the train avoided disaster as it was equipped with a new technology called the “Automatic Standby with Downforce Control,” which checks to ensure that there's an “active” driver running the train “at all times.”
The system kicked in and safely brought the train to a stop on the tracks.
The company said normal traffic resumed early on Christmas Day after “funeral directors had left the scene” and authorization was “given by the judicial police officer” to resume operations.
SNCF said all trains reached their intended location and “all customers were picked up, some by taxi.”
The train’s driver was identified by U.K. newspaper The Times as 52-year-old Bruno Rejony.
A member of the train staff eventually walked up the track, forced open the driver’s door from the outside and found it empty. This prompted emergency service personnel to search for the driver, whose body was later found beside the tracks, according to The Times.