• 28 Dead in Swiss Bus Crash (22 of which were children)
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This is exactly why I try and get on the back seat in buses edit: I'm just even more paranoid now
This is awful, i'm sure there will be news updates on tv the whole day over here. Must be hell for those parents that are waiting to hear if their kid survived or not..
I was wondering how the bus could be that damaged by just hitting the side of the tunnel... Well this explains it: [IMG]http://www.bilder.sf.tv/var/storage/images/sf/auftritte/bildergalerien/galerien/tagesschau/carunfall-im-wallis/120314_carimtunnel_reu_k/116683762-1-ger-DE/120314_carimtunnel_reu_k_front_big.jpg[/IMG]
Damned,pretty bad news this morning,lost some fellow Belgians :( (and some Dutch too)
this makes me sad that this happened in my country :(
[QUOTE=kaukassus;35133199]this makes me sad that this happened in my country :([/QUOTE] This could have happened anywhere, but yeah, it's still sad to think that it happened so close.
[url]http://www.bloggen.be/l6a/[/url] Extremely depressing. A blog written by a teacher about the Ski trip with loads of pictures of happy students and such. Now more than half of them is death... -nevermind the blog seems to have been deleted while I was writing this.
Its back online i think [QUOTE]Morgen wordt het ook nog een drukke dag en ik weet dus niet of er nog een blogverslag zal verschijnen. Maar woensdagochtend verschijnen we wel met z'n allen[/QUOTE] It says; 13/03/2012 - Tomorrow its gonna be a busy day so i dont know if there's gonna be a blog,but wednesday morning we will appear with us all... (dont mind my translating) Awww,poor people.
[QUOTE=dafour;35133593]Its back online i think[/QUOTE] It looks like someone made a new blog under the same name. 2 hours ago there were lots of pictures on the frontpage of the blog ( photographed yesterday ): ) with quotes from the children that the food of the last night tasted good etc. Now there's some sort of standard page with information on what to do with your blog; how to make an new post etc.
Ahh looks like its gone again,yes i saw the pictures and really had a bad feeling.So cruel too see them alive and well...
I'm very sad because of this. 22 dead children, All belgians, dead. This is very sad news for our country. :( also the cities were the kids are from, are about 30 mins away.
Truly terrible news. The schools are less than fifteen minutes' drive away from my school. My heart goes out to the families. Worst part is how apparently some children switched seats with others on other buses, and the teachers all died, so a lot of parents don't know which bus their kid was on and they can't get confirmation on identity. This is truly a horror scenario for everyone involved. Apparently a few Swiss rescue workers started crying.
That's gotta be very hard for the parents.
Let the internet-mourning begin... It's terrible what happened (my ex and her family were also in a bus crash and how she remembered it is truly horrifying) but I'm getting sick of the way people widely display their mourning on the internet. "Share/Like to show respect bla bla". What does that even mean, showing respect, and how do you do that by clicking a link on the internet? I'd say it's even disrespectful. People feel like a god because oh wow they spend a whole second "paying respect" to people in a tragic accident. Thanks-a -fucking-lot. We are the laziest fucking generation ever, and it's getting worse. These days, activism (or just being involved in a "good" cause, whatever that may be) is equivalent with sitting on your ass in front of a computer and doing nothing. The only thing that seems to matter is that everyone should know that you do absolutely fucking nothing. [I]part of what I said, I saw in a youtube vid but I can't remember which one[/I]
Christ, I wish I could donate.
I hope that the surviving kids can learn to live with this, must be horrible to just lose most of your class.
Most of them will probably get thrown into deep depression, no doubt scared for life. Far as I see it this is the absolute worst case scenario for a tunnel like this. There shouldn't even be naked curbs in such a tunnel, even if it's an emergency stop area there should never be a corner like that. So many kids could've been saved, including the driver. Hope it was quick and painless. :(
Just got new information from the ongoing press-conference: - They secured the video footage - The bus wasn't to fast - All kids were wearing seat belts - No other car was involved - The street was clean [editline]14th March 2012[/editline] Also, a lot of the helpers are traumatized.
[QUOTE=kirederf7;35132709]Pictures : [IMG]http://static0.hln.be/static/photo/2012/18/13/7/album_large_4691707.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE] Fuck, my stomach turned when I noticed the blood there. How would it end up on the side of the bus anyway?
[QUOTE=Derp Y. Mail;35132940] That bus looks absolutely ravaged. How did it hit a wall anyway? Tunnels don't usually have [/QUOTE] To solve the mistery about that Wall. [img]http://bilder.bild.de/fotos-skaliert/emergencyservicesworkonthewreckageofabust_25495668_mbqf-1331711630-23136382/2,h=343.bild.jpg[/img] [img]http://bilder.bild.de/fotos-skaliert/switzerlandbuscrash_25495646_mbqf-1331711687-23136388/3,h=343.bild.jpg[/img] [img]http://bilder.bild.de/fotos-skaliert/switzerlandbuscrash_25495225_mbqf-23136426/3,h=343.bild.jpg[/img] Also here is an animation of the accident: [url]http://www.focus.de/panorama/videos/28-tote-bei-busunglueck-in-der-schweiz-animation-zeigt-den-busunfall-im-tunnel_vid_30267.html[/url]
Hard stop crashes suck. The vehicle stops moving but you [i]fly[/i].
[QUOTE=DMGaina;35136839][img]http://bilder.bild.de/fotos-skaliert/switzerlandbuscrash_25495225_mbqf-23136426/3,h=343.bild.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I often look at manmade things and am amazed by the fact that someone made at some time a decision to let it look like that, no matter how small-scaled or trivial the design is. In this case the right decision would have saved 28 people's life. Whoever designed that tunnel feels guilty now (and maybe should as the video says (it hints at the dangerous design of the curb and the wall in the 90° angle)). At the same time I wonder how many other designs saved lives all around the world. This is so sad and depressing. :(
Wow I was on a ski trip with my school a few weeks ago with the same looking coach bus. None of the seats even had seatbelts for mine or any of the other buses (there were 3 buses on my trip too). I can't imagine how I would feel if another bus with my friends on it crashed.
I read that the kids got catapulted at a speed of 20 times their own bodyweight ;(
[QUOTE=Number-41;35135191]Let the internet-mourning begin... It's terrible what happened (my ex and her family were also in a bus crash and how she remembered it is truly horrifying) but I'm getting sick of the way people widely display their mourning on the internet. "Share/Like to show respect bla bla". What does that even mean, showing respect, and how do you do that by clicking a link on the internet? I'd say it's even disrespectful. People feel like a god because oh wow they spend a whole second "paying respect" to people in a tragic accident. Thanks-a -fucking-lot. We are the laziest fucking generation ever, and it's getting worse. These days, activism (or just being involved in a "good" cause, whatever that may be) is equivalent with sitting on your ass in front of a computer and doing nothing. The only thing that seems to matter is that everyone should know that you do absolutely fucking nothing. [I]part of what I said, I saw in a youtube vid but I can't remember which one[/I][/QUOTE]What the hell would you rather them do in this situation? Stage a protest to get the kids to resurrect or something? Jesus. Who cares if someone only "likes" something, there's a lot more shit to complain about. Complaining about someone liking something doesn't do anything either by the way. Oh and I'd say that's disrespectful of you to say that people think they're a god for clicking a 'like' button, guess what, no one thinks that. They're just clicking a button and showing a little bit of respect and that's better than nothing. Stop sitting there on your high horse.
Wow, blood on the outside of the bus? How the fuck does that happen? And I can see why it's so horrible now, looks like he hit the corner of the wall or something. Horrible. :(
That's just life you know? If it's their time to go, that's when they go. At least they had a memorable last day :(
[QUOTE=benzi2k7;35190055]What the hell would you rather them do in this situation? Stage a protest to get the kids to resurrect or something? Jesus. Who cares if someone only "likes" something, there's a lot more shit to complain about. Complaining about someone liking something doesn't do anything either by the way. Oh and I'd say that's disrespectful of you to say that people think they're a god for clicking a 'like' button, guess what, no one thinks that. They're just clicking a button and showing a little bit of respect and that's better than nothing. Stop sitting there on your high horse.[/QUOTE] Agree, I Like accidents where innocent people die too.
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