Devastating. One of the victims was a 27 year old woman, pregnant (7,5 months) of her first child. She and her husband grew up in the same village, went to the same school and were already lovers when they were teenagers. She took the train to work every day and allthough she was already 7,5 months pregnant, she insisted on keeping working for as long as possible, because she loved her job. For the first time in her career, she had missed her train at 6.30 am and she took one of the fatal trains.

Article in Dutch.

To think that the train she was supposed to take is the same my wife takes every day...

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Contrary to the first news broadcasts after the accident, the machinist (is that English? it's the guy who drives the train) now claims that he didn't ignore a red light. He claims the light was green, not red. Of course, the media never waits for an investigation and since a couple of hours after the accident, the machinist was accused, trialed and found guilty by the media, they now write that he's probably lying. You can always count on the media to condemn someone without investigation or trial. Who cares about other peoples' sensitivities when condemning someone based on rumours sells more newspapers?