Post by eurovisionbelgium on Mar 14, 2012 21:12:36 GMT 1
A Belgian coach carrying school children from schools in Heverlee and Lommel has crashed in Sierre in the Swiss Alps. Twenty-eight people are dead including twenty-two children.The accident happened shortly after 9PM on Tuesday night. The coach crashed into the left flank of a tunnel at full speed. As yet it is unclear why the coach veered off its course. No other vehicles are believed to have been involved in the accident.
The accident happened in a tunnel on the A9 road between Sierre and Sion. The coach involved in the accident was accompanied by two other coaches.
Inside the tunnel the coach with 52 people on board crashed into a wall of the tunnel. The entire front of the coach was destroyed as a result of the impact. Several victims were stuck in the wreckage.
The two drivers did not survive the crash. The four other adults, monitors and teachers also died. In addition to the fatalities a further twenty-two people are thought to have been injured. The injured have been taken to four different hospitals across the Swiss canton of Valais (Wallis). A number of injured have been taken as far afield as Lausanne and Bern. Three injured are in a coma and further deaths cannot be ruled out.
The Belgian Foreign Affairs Ministry says that the children were aged 11 and 12 and hailed from the Sint-Lamberts School in Heverlee near Leuven (Flemish Brabant) and from the primary school 't Stekske in Lommel (Limburg). They were returning from a skiing holiday in the resort of Saint Luc in Val d'Anniviers.
I just wanted to post this.
Why?
This is a day in the history of Belgium that I and many other Belgians never forget.more than 52 children of 12 years went by ski class in Switzerland.I hope you read this here and you may also post your condolences if you want.
The accident happened in a tunnel on the A9 road between Sierre and Sion. The coach involved in the accident was accompanied by two other coaches.
Inside the tunnel the coach with 52 people on board crashed into a wall of the tunnel. The entire front of the coach was destroyed as a result of the impact. Several victims were stuck in the wreckage.
The two drivers did not survive the crash. The four other adults, monitors and teachers also died. In addition to the fatalities a further twenty-two people are thought to have been injured. The injured have been taken to four different hospitals across the Swiss canton of Valais (Wallis). A number of injured have been taken as far afield as Lausanne and Bern. Three injured are in a coma and further deaths cannot be ruled out.
The Belgian Foreign Affairs Ministry says that the children were aged 11 and 12 and hailed from the Sint-Lamberts School in Heverlee near Leuven (Flemish Brabant) and from the primary school 't Stekske in Lommel (Limburg). They were returning from a skiing holiday in the resort of Saint Luc in Val d'Anniviers.
I just wanted to post this.
Why?
This is a day in the history of Belgium that I and many other Belgians never forget.more than 52 children of 12 years went by ski class in Switzerland.I hope you read this here and you may also post your condolences if you want.
