Allinges, France (Dauphiné Libéré, Fre) – Seven young students were killed and 25 injured a year ago when a TER train travelling from Evian, France to Geneva’s Eaux-Vives station smashed into a school bus at a level-crossing near Allinges, Haute-Savoie. Judicial authorities organized a reconstruction of the events today, 16 June, by driving the train out of the tunnel 125m from the crossing. Tuesday’s test confirmed that traveling at the legal 93km/hour, the train driver wouldn’t have had the time to avoid hitting the bus. Most family members were present this morning, along with police, judges and lawyers.

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News story, GenevaLunch, 16 June 2009.

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