Train derails in northern France, injuring 44 passengers

On a quiet Friday evening in Normandy, a train carrying 180 people between Rouen and Caen left the rails near the small commune of Cléon, reminding us how swiftly the ordinary rhythms of modern life can fracture. At least 44 passengers were injured, among them a young woman of eighteen airlifted to hospital in critical condition — a human cost that gives weight to what might otherwise read as a logistical event. The cause remains unknown, and with it lingers the particular unease that accompanies accidents without explanation: the sense that the ground beneath routine travel is less certain th