Switzerland Trains Collide Head-On Outside Geneva

• Switzerland Trains Collide Head-On Outside Geneva

  
  

  July 29, 2013 In Switzerland outside of Geneva,two trains collided head-on apparently when one of the drivers failed to respect a signal allowing a faster train to pass the station.The driver of one of the trains was killed. 

  Switzerland investigates deadly train collision

  thesundaily.my·7/30/2013   

  GRANGES-PRES-MARNAND (July 30, 2013): The Swiss authorities on Tuesday were investigating a head-on train collision in the west of the country ... resulting in…
  

  The Swiss authorities on Tuesday were investigating a head-on train collision in the west of the country that killed one of the drivers and injured 26 other people.

  The accident on a rail network regarded as one of the world's most reliable came as Spain was mourning the 79 victims of one of Europe's worst train disasters in recent years.

  Two trains collided head-on late Monday just outside the station at Granges-pres-Marnand, a small town between the Geneva and Neuchatel lakes in Switzerland's French speaking region.

  Daniel Antonez, a resident of nearby Moudon, said he heard the impact.

  "It's one I often take. I'm sure I know some people who were on the train," he said.

  Rescuers retrieved the body of a driver from one of the crumpled engines early Tuesday and investigators were surveying the crash site.

  Flanked by cornfields, the two small trains were still on the track Tuesday, both engines locked into each other and lifted slightly off the ground as workers used beams to prepare to remove the wreckage.

  
  

• Signal-jumping likely cause of Swiss train crash

  sg.news.yahoo.com·7/30/2013

• Spain train crash: Driver said afterwards 'he wanted to die'

  Daily Telegraph·7/26/2013

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• Swiss Train Crash Driver's Body Recovered From Mangled Wreck

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  Jul 30, 2013 · Swiss Train Crash Driver's Body Recovered From Mangled Wreck 07/30/13 07:33 AM ET EDT Get World Newsletters: Subscribe ... The traffic light was …

  Rescue workers on Tuesday recovered the body of the driver of one of two regional trains that collided head-on in western Switzerland. Officials said it appeared likely that one of the trains ignored a signal.

  The body of the 24-year-old driver was recovered from the mangled wreckage in the early morning...

  The accident happened just after a local train left the station, where it had stopped. It collided with a train going in the opposite direction that wasn't scheduled to stop.

  Sauterel said that schedules call for the slower train to remain in the station while the faster train passes through.

  He said the "the hypothesis favored by investigators" is a "failure to respect a signal" by the slower train, whose driver was questioned on Monday night. But he stressed that a detailed investigation will be needed. The driver of the faster train was killed.

• Swiss train crash: Signal-jumping likely cause, say investigators ...

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  Swiss train crash: Signal-jumping likely cause, say investigators. Agence France-Presse | Updated: July ... resulting in 25 people suffering light injuries.