Train Crash in Belgium

[Cendrillon]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100215/twl-at-least-25-die-in-belgian-train-cra-41f21e0.html

A terrible accident

....................read the last sentence or two about the lack of understanding languages at the two stations.

[Chancer]

I saw it on the mid-day news.

I dont follow your coment regarding languages.

[woolybanana]

A Flemish speaker at one station and a Walloon speaker at the next station failed to understand each oither.

Not the first time this problem has caused accidents, unfoirtunately.

It is all down to bloodyminded stupidity.

[Bugsy]

I think that quote referred to an earlier crash.

"In 2001, eight people were killed and 12 were injured in a head-on

collision between commuter trains outside Brussels. It was thought that

language difficulties between a Flemish-speaking signalman and a

French-speaking colleague were a factor in that crash."

[Cendrillon]

May have been that though I am sure the account I read (and posted and has now disappeared) indicated that the language problem had been a factor in today's crash.

[Bugsy]

According to the latest news it is now suspected that one of the trains went through a red light.

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[Cendrillon]

Yes, I read that too.