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Glacier Express deadly accident was due to driver blackout

08/11/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The 23 July 2010 accident on one of Switzerland’s most popular tourist attractions, the Glacier Express, was due entirely to the driver having an inexplicable blackout, the federal public transport specialist who has overseen the investigation told Sonntags Blick magazine. There was no pressure on him to accelerate too soon to […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: blackout, conductor, crash, death, driver, Glacier Express, Goms Valley, injuries, Swiss trains, Switzerland, train

Geneva police rev up biker safety campaign

19/05/2010 by Ellen Wallace

Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Motorcyclists being stopped by the police are a sight more frequent than usual this week in Geneva, with the city’s police running a safety campaign 17-21 May, called “PréDiRe Motocyclistes”. It is part of the larger BPU (Swiss Safety Council) national preventive campaign to cut the number of bikers’ deaths and […]

Filed Under: Travels Tagged With: BPU, deaths, Geneva, injuries, motorcycle safety campaign, police, road accidents, speed, Swiss Safety Council

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