GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The four-day Swiss Ascension weekend led to a number of accidents in the Lake Geneva region, police report. A 19-year-old Vaud woman lost her life in the early hours of Saturday when the car she was driving hit the pillar of a bridge on the road between Daillens and Eclépens, near Morges. The accident occurred at 01:20 in the morning.
The car rolled down a slope after hitting the bridge, and landed on the CFF railway tracks. Emergency services were alerted immediately but the woman died at the scene of the accident.
The CFF stopped rail service until 06:30, sending out a team to repair the tracks.
Seriously injured cyclist hit by man pulling out of driveway
A cyclist in canton Valais was seriously injured, but his life is not in danger, with several vertebrae broken during an accident Saturday about 15:30. He was cycling on the road from Lourtier towards Champsec. A 37-year-old man pulled out of his driveway, not seeing the cyclist who was coming along the road from his left. The 36-year-old bike rider hit the front left of the car and was thrown 15 metres onto a bank. Both are from the area.
Spate of carelessness fires in Valais
Canton Valais saw two fires over the holiday weekend. One was in a tile-making plant. The other was in Saxon at a home for adults in difficultly, where a cigarette butt was responsible for causing serious damage but no injuries. The fires came just days after a another blaze in Sierre where a woman left candles burning in her bathroom and the curtains caught fire. The fires caused buildings to be evacuated, but there were no injuries.
Paleo special trains, Geneva-Lyon cuts, Migros 2 for 1
Port Elizabeth, South Africa group Ubuhle plays Tuesday night at Paleo
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch.com) – Regional trains between Geneva and Lyons are out of service from Monday 19 July to 30 July, due to French rail company SNCF repairs. Buses are replacing the train service. The buses from Geneva are behind the Cornavin station, at Place Montbrillant. Details: phone 166 (CHF.50/min) for an automatic message, and if you need to speak to an agent: 0900 300 300 (CHF 1.19/min) from Switzerland.
Paleo: 20% discounts on train tickets
The CFF is working with the Paleo music festival to cut car traffic to Nyon during the festival, which runs from 20-25 July, by offering rail tickets at a 20 percent discount. RailAway prices, if you have a half-price card: round-trip (return) in second-class, Geneva-Nyon CHF6.60, from Lausanne, CHF11.20, from Fribourg, CHF25.60.
Title: Christmas late-night shopping, Geneva and Nyon
Location: Geneva
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Description: Stores stay open until 22:00 Wednesday 23 December and 18:00 Thursday 24 in Geneva. Nyon’s shops stay open until 22:00 Monday 21 December and Wednesday 23, and the town’s public transport is free during those times. Note: Geneva has a special Christmas and New Year’s hotel + shopping offer, starting at CHF104.
Start Date: 2009-12-18
End Date: 2010-01-04
US President Barack Obama has become the first American sitting president to appear on a late night talk show, on the Jay Leno show Thursday 19 March. Obama used the talk show in order to reach ordinary Americans, according to an MSNBC report. The president spoke of personal issues such as the promise of a white house dog and how “cool” it is to fly in Air Force One, He also used the time to discuss economic reform and to promote financial regulation reform.
Critics accused Obama of being distracted from the serious issues and demeaning his office. Viewers praised his effort to give the people faith in their government in dark financial times. BBC
