Wild boar collisions with French trains, Digi Mart USA News (France): Wild boar and other large game that are multiplying across France are causing increasingly frequent incidents on the country’s railway lines, according to a report from Le Figaro. The publisher describes more than eight collisions per day.
On Sunday, October 25, the 400 passengers of a Rennes-to-Paris train experienced the problem firsthand. The train left shortly after 7 p.m.
and reached its destination around 5 a.m. on Monday morning, a journey of more than nine hours instead of the usual four and a half hours.
The trip was interrupted by two successive incidents, one of which was a collision with a wild boar.
Vincent Auriat, head of the sustainable transformation department at SNCF Réseau, said nearly 3,000 collisions occurred between trains and wildlife in 2025. More than half were caused by wild boar.
Auriat described wild boar as tough animals that can cause significant damage.
