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Six-yr-old in critical condition after sled hit by car

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 08:57:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com SION, SWITZERLAND – A six-year-old boy from canton Vaud is in critical condition with internal injuries following a sledding accident in the resort of Haut Nendaz Sunday shortly before noon. The child was going down a slope and went onto a road just as a car came along. The view of the slope was hidden [...]

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Police seek witnesses after Saturday night death on A9

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 15:30:53 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Drunk driver left scene of Montreux-Vevey accident; 78-year-old woman killed LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 78-year-old woman died in hospital Saturday night 21 January shortly after an accident at 22:00 on the A9 autoroute between Vevey and Montreux, in the direction of Vileneuve. The lake side of the road was closed to traffic until 07:15 Sunday [...]

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Police seek driver after A1 Rolle-Gland accident

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:51:07 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Canton Vaud police are seeking the driver of a dark VW Golf following an accident at 09:00 Monday morning 9 January on the A1 autoroute between Rolle and Gland, in the direction of Geneva. A metallic gray Skoda was in the left lane, just before the La Côte layby, passing a truck, [...]

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Youth gravely injured by train in Gland

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:42:41 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 14-year-old is in serious condition, but his life is not in danger, following an accident at the train station in Gland, canton Vaud, Thursday evening 22 December. Vaud police say that a goods train, going 100 kph, pulled the youth was pulled onto the tracks from the platform about 19:00. He and [...]

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Pakistan-US relations taut after Nato airstrike kills 24 soldiers

Ellen Wallace — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:11:21 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Pakistan’s foreign minister reportedly had harsh words for US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a phone call early Sunday 27 November, in the wake of a Nato airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers. The soldiers were buried Sunday. The deaths were the result of a “tragic unintended incident” Saturday, said Nato [...]

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Woman, 25, dies after spinning off Le Sentier road

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 17:35:50 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Agrandir le plan LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 25-year-old woman was found dead in her car at 07:30 Saturday 26 November, in a field between Le Lieux and Le Sentier, next to the cantonal road in the hamlet of Hameau de Combe Noir on the northwest side of Lac du Joux. Her car had rolled several times [...]

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Syngenta worked dies at Monthey plant

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 21 Nov 2011 10:15:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 43-year-old Valais man died Sunday afternoon while working at a chemical plant belonging to Syngenta in Monthey, canton Valais. He and another worker were trying to recover a tool that had fallen into an emptied vat. When they failed to reach it he went into the vat, but without first putting [...]

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Police seek Epalinges hit and run driver after 10-yr-old injured

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 10:37:22 +0000

GenevaLunch.com LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – Vaud Police are asking for help in finding the driver of a dark blue car that hit a 10-year-old girl in Epalinges Wednesday 9 November at noon. The girl was walking along the chemin des Tuileries at 12:00 when she stepped into the crosswalk at Petit-Vennes. She was 1.5 metres into the [...]

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Deadly M-5 UK motorway accident involves 27 vehicles

Ellen Wallace — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 12:35:47 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 27-vehicle pileup on the M5 motorway in Somerset, England, has killed an unknown number of people but initial reports list 5 dead, at least 43 injured. The accident occurred at 20:35 Friday 4 November at exit 25 northbound, near Taunton, with the crashes sparking a huge fireball. It appears that six [...]

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Woman slips under train in Morges

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 08:58:04 +0000

GenevaLunch.com MORGES, SWITZERLAND – A 66-year-old local woman slipped and fell between the quai at the Morges train station and the train tracks at 09:30 Wednesday, say Vaud police. She is in critical condition. The woman was trying to board a train as it pulled out of the station and she lost her balance. The police [...]