• France bus crash: 43 Pensioners killed in truck collision
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[IMG]http://rack.1.mshcdn.com/media/ZgkyMDE1LzEwLzIzLzNlL0FQXzEyMzYxMzMxLjQ2ZjU0LmpwZwpwCXRodW1iCTk1MHg1MzQjCmUJanBn/df991350/32a/AP_123613311030.jpg[/IMG] [QUOTE] At least 43 people, most of them pensioners on a day trip, have been killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in south-west France. The crash happened on a country road near Puisseguin in the Gironde wine region, east of Bordeaux. Both vehicles then caught fire. [...] It is the worst French road disaster since 1982, when 52 people died. [/QUOTE] [URL="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34613637"][B]Source[/B][/URL]
Holy crap, a terrible way to go and for so many.
Fun fact time: the French call street busses "bus". Other busses, which are not at street level and hold luggage in a cargo below the seats are called "car". The bus on this picture is referred to as "un car". There is no known justification for this lexical oddity.
Well, I mean... I guess it could have been worse, right? It could have been a bus full of children I suppose. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("shitpost" - Craptasket))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=sltungle;48978474]Well, I mean... I guess it could have been worse, right? It could have been a bus full of children I suppose.[/QUOTE] Oh yeah now that you say that, this doesn't seem tragic at all man.
[QUOTE=Hogie bear;48978918]Oh yeah now that you say that, this doesn't seem tragic at all man.[/QUOTE] It is a lot less tragic. It is sad, sure, but come on, most of them were close to end anyway. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Shitpost" - Craptasket))[/highlight]
[QUOTE=itisjuly;48978951]It is a lot less tragic. It is sad, sure, but come on, most of them were close to end anyway.[/QUOTE] Are you for real?
[QUOTE=itisjuly;48978951]It is a lot less tragic. It is sad, sure, but come on, most of them were close to end anyway.[/QUOTE] Potentially 40+ years left?
Any Grey's watchers here will appreciate the painfully coincidental timing of this. Always a major incident when OAPs are involved in accidents; after trauma they just tend to die randomly at short notice, without any signs of anything being wrong.
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