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==Accidents==
{{Main|TGV accidents}}
In over four decades of operation, the TGV has not recorded a single passenger fatality in an accident on normal, high-speed service. There have been several accidents, including four derailments at or above {{convert|270|km/h|4=0|abbr=on}}, but in only one of these—a test run on a new line—did carriages overturn.

This safety record is credited in part to the stiffness that the articulated design lends to the train. There have been fatal accidents involving TGVs on ''lignes classiques'', where the trains are exposed to the same dangers as normal trains, such as [[level crossing]]s. These include one [[Terrorism|terrorist bombing]] unrelated to the speed at which the train was traveling.

===On LGVs===
* 14 December 1992: TGV 920 from Annecy to Paris, operated by set 56, derailed at {{convert|270|km/h|4=0|abbr=on}} at Mâcon-Loché TGV station ([[Saône-et-Loire]]). A previous emergency stop had caused a wheel flat; the bogie concerned derailed while crossing the [[railroad switch|points]] at the entrance to the station. No one on the train was injured, but 25 passengers waiting on the platform for another TGV were slightly injured by ballast that was thrown up from the trackbed.
* 21 December 1993: TGV 7150 from Valenciennes to Paris, operated by set 511, derailed at {{convert|300|km/h|4=0|abbr=on}} at the site of Haute Picardie TGV station, before it was built. Rain had caused a hole to open up under the track; the hole dated from the [[First World War]] but had not been detected during construction. The front power car and four carriages derailed but remained aligned with the track. Of the 200 passengers, one was slightly injured.
* 5 June 2000: Eurostar 9073 from Paris to London, operated by sets 3101/2 owned by the [[National Railway Company of Belgium]], derailed at {{convert|250|km/h|mph|0|abbr=on|sigfig=3}} in the [[Nord-Pas de Calais]] region near [[Croisilles, Pas-de-Calais|Croisilles]].<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.trainweb.org/tgvpages/wrecks.html | title=TGV Accidents  | publisher=trainweb.org | date=1 May 2009}}</ref> The transmission assembly on the rear bogie of the front power car failed, with parts falling onto the track. Four bogies out of 24 derailed. Out of 501 passengers, seven were bruised<ref>''[https://archive.today/20071001045449/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ap/605638911.html?did=605638911&FMT=ABS&FMTS=FT&date=Jun+5,+2000&author=&pub=Associated+Press&desc=Eurostar+derails,+seven+passengers+bruised Eurostar derails; seven passengers bruised]'' [[Associated Press]] (5 June 2000), Retrieved 24 November 2005</ref> and others treated for shock.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/778669.stm |title=Eurostar train derails in France | work = [[BBC News]] |access-date=2009-05-10 | date=5 June 2000}}</ref>
* 14 November 2015: TGV 2369 was involved in the [[Eckwersheim derailment]], near Strasbourg, while being tested on the then-unopened second phase of the LGV Est. The derailment resulted in 11 deaths among those aboard, while 11 others aboard the train were seriously injured.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-34825385/at-least-11-killed-in-french-tgv-high-speed-train-crash|title=At least 11 killed in rail crash in France|work=BBC News|access-date=2017-12-20}}</ref> Excessive speed has been cited as the cause.<ref name=dna>{{cite news|url=http://www.dna.fr/actualite/2015/11/14/un-train-se-renverse-et-prend-feu-a-eckwersheim-pres-de-strasbourg|title=Une rame d'essai d'un TGV se renverse et prend feu à Eckwersheim, près de Strasbourg : cinq morts|language=fr|newspaper=Dernieres Nouvelles D'Alsace|date=14 November 2015|last1=Bach|first1=Christian|last2=Poivret|first2=Aurélien}}</ref>

===On classic lines===
* 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.
*28 September 1988: TGV 736, operated by set 70 "Melun", collided with a lorry carrying an electric transformer weighing 100 tonnes that had become stuck on a level crossing in [[Voiron]], Isère. The vehicle had not obtained the required crossing permit from the French ''Direction départementale de l'équipement''. The weight of the lorry caused a very violent collision; the train driver and a passenger died, and 25 passengers were slightly injured.
* 4 January 1991: after a brake failure, TGV 360 ran away from Châtillon depot. The train was directed onto an unoccupied track and collided with the car loading ramp at Paris-Vaugirard station at {{convert|60|km/h|abbr=on}}. No one was injured. The leading power car and the first two carriages were severely damaged, and were rebuilt.
* 25 September 1997: TGV 7119 from Paris to [[Dunkerque]], operated by set 502, collided at {{convert|130|km/h|abbr=on}} with a 70 tonne asphalt paving machine on a level crossing at Bierne, near Dunkerque. The power car spun round and fell down an embankment. The front two carriages left the track and came to a stop in woods beside the track. Seven people were injured.
* 31 October 2001: TGV 8515 from Paris to Irun derailed at {{convert|130|km/h|abbr=on}} near [[Dax, Landes|Dax]] in southwest France. All ten carriages derailed and the rear power unit fell over. The cause was a broken rail.
* 30 January 2003: a TGV from Dunkerque to Paris collided at {{convert|106|km/h|abbr=on}} with a heavy goods vehicle stuck on the level crossing at Esquelbecq in northern France. The front power car was severely damaged, but only one bogie derailed. Only the driver was slightly injured.
* 19 December 2007: a TGV from Paris to Geneva collided at about {{convert|100|km/h|abbr=on}} with a truck on a level crossing near [[Tossiat]] in eastern France, near the Swiss border. The driver of the truck died; on the train, one person was seriously injured and 24 were slightly injured.<ref>{{Cite news |url=http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1955864420071219 |title=French TGV train hits lorry and kills one |publisher=Reuters UK |date=19 December 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081207155431/http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1955864420071219 |archive-date=7 December 2008}}</ref>
* 17 July 2014: a [[TER]] train ran into the rear of a TGV [[Denguin rail crash|at Denguin, Pyrénées-Atlantiques]]. Forty people were injured.

Following the number of accidents at level crossings, an effort has been made to remove all level crossings on ''lignes classiques'' used by TGVs. The ''ligne classique'' from [[Tours]] to [[Bordeaux]] at the end of the LGV Atlantique has no level crossings as a result.