28 Dead in Swiss Bus Crash (22 of which were children)
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GENEVA (AP) — A bus carrying Belgian students returning from a ski holiday crashed into a wall in a Swiss tunnel, killing 28 people, police said Wednesday.
At least 22 of those killed were children, and another 24 students were hospitalized with injuries, Valais cantonal (state) police spokesman Jean-Marie Bornet told The Associated Press.
The bus carrying 52 people crashed around 9 p.m. local time in a tunnel at Sierre, Switzerland, near popular ski areas in the Swiss Alps.
A rescue helicopter and ambulances were called in to carry the injured.
Belgian media reported that the children were from two towns, Lommel, east of Antwerp, and Heverlee, near Leuven. A government spokesman said a crisis center has been set up and an emergency number provided for families.
Didier Reynders, the Belgian foreign minister, said authorities were still busy identifying all the victims.
"It is incomprehensible. There were three buses and only one was in (an) accident without any contact with another vehicle," he said. "It hit a wall in a tunnel."
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How terribly sad, coming back from what I'm sure was an amazing vacation. My thoughts to the victims and their families.
Alternate source: [URL]http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/03/14/swiss-accident-idUSL5E8EE03O20120314[/URL]
Oh shit. That's horrible.
the circumstances surrounding how the bus crashed are a little odd if you ask me. would be nice to know what happened, if perhaps they hit a patch of black ice and swerved into a wall or something. i noticed when i was in switzerland it was a little trippy driving through all the tunnels through mountains because the lights would disorientate me a bit but not to the point where i would have ever swerved into a wall
I heard it on the radio this morning. Scary thought that I have to go on a school trip to Rome with a bus through Switzerland in 2 weeks.
I can't even imagine how the parents must feel when they heard about the news, not knowing if their child is still alive or not.
What a smashing way to end a holiday.
[QUOTE=3com111;35132696]What a smashing way to end a holiday.[/QUOTE]
Stuff like this isn't really appropriate to make jokes about. 22 children died in that crash...
[QUOTE=3com111;35132696]What a smashing way to end a holiday.[/QUOTE]
this is not the time
Aw man, I went to Austria with a bus for a school ski trip just a year ago, and an old school friend lost her entire family in a tunnel car crash many years ago too. :(
Best of luck coping with the situation to the families.
What get's me fucked is how do they get the bodies/guts and shit out of there?
OrangeElimin is a terrible person.
That bus looks absolutely ravaged. How did it hit a wall anyway? Tunnels don't usually have sharp turns, and he didn't nudge any other vehicles...
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Why the dumbs?
Fuck.
More images here: [url]http://www.bilder.sf.tv/Tagesschau/Carunfall-im-Wallis?referer=6001402#/1[/url]
That's horrible.
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Nice job being immature, asshole.
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I am pretty sure watching and masturbating to a show for little girls makes you a terrible person.
[QUOTE=OrangeElimin;35133034]I am pretty sure watching and masturbating to a show for little girls makes you a terrible person.[/QUOTE]
And I'm pretty sure pulling stereotypes out of your ass makes you immature.
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[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;35133036]And I'm pretty sure pulling stereotypes out of your ass makes you immature.[/QUOTE]
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Nice argument and great grammar, you must be a star student.
[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;35133040]Nice argument and great grammar, you must be a star student.[/QUOTE]
You know someone has lost an argument when the totally ignore the point/info and make silly little comments on grammar that no one gives a fuck about.
Apparently the bus hit a curbstone and was catapulted into the emergency corner.
[QUOTE=rosthouse;35133075]Apparently the bus hit a curbstone and was catapulted into the emergency corner.[/QUOTE]
Sue the curbstone.
OrangeElimin will you just shut up? Nobody cares about your obsessive hatred against people who watch some cartoon. This is a thread about a bus crash that killed 28 people.
Wait, how fast was he driving?
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My poor automerge.
This looks horrible. There's blood all over the bus. And to think I live 15 km away from Belgium... I feel really sorry for the victims and the family of the deceased. If I could visit them and show my respect, I would've done it.
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>March 2012
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>Get the fuck out lollo lscurb
Belgium already arranged two airplanes to fly over relatives to Switzerland IIRC.
Whenever i'm on a bus and i'm bored i like to think what would happen if, say, the bush crashed, or a car hit there, we were crushed by a crane. Orange, March 2012, calling around 35% of Fp's faggots. You'll do well here.
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