GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – A 22-year-old was killed at 06:10 Sunday morning while crossing the autoroute on foot near the airport, Geneva police say. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Highway Security Brigade at 41 22 427 6450.
The young man was hit by a car coming from the Route de Meyrin. The driver, age 58, was in the lane joining the autoroute, heading towards Lausanne and level with the ICC building, when he hit the pedestrian, who was killed by the impact.
ATS news agency says the youth was taking a shortcut, but the police have not confirmed this.
The driver, in a state of shock, was helping police with their inquiry and the autoroute around the airport was closed for two hours for the investigation.
This is the second fatal accident on the autoroute around Geneva since the start of the year.
LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND – A 47-year-old woman received light injuries when she hit a mule on the road from Brig to Raron in canton Valais late Monday 26 September, but the mule was killed outright.
The accident happened at 20:10 on a straight stretch of road after several mules strayed from their enclosure and wandered onto the main road.
The woman’s car was heavily damaged.
Rescue column searching avalanche, Bourg-St-Pierre
Geneva and Sion, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Four people lost their lives in three separate accidents in the Swiss Alps in 48 hours.
Two of them died Sunday 13 March in an avalanche, bringing to five the number of people who have died in avalanches in the past 10 days in the region, four of them since Saturday.
A 43-year-old Valais man and his 11-year-old son died in an avalanche in Bourg-St-Pierre, not far from Verbier, late Sunday.
A German man who was climbing in snowshoes to the Wildstubel near Leukerbad died Saturday evening after he ran into health problems and was unable to reach safety.
And a Swiss man, age 38, died Monday as he was driving a van up the main road to the Simplon Pass, when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed head-on into a truck driven by a 37-year-old Slovakian man. The truck driver is in serious condition.
Father and son caught by avalanche on dis-used ski slope
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A 25-year-old man was killed early Saturday as he was heading from the Lausanne area in the direction of Moudon. The accident happened near Ropraz, at an area called Ussières on the Route de Berne, at 06:15.
The man’s car left his lane for reasons that are unclear and swerved into the path of an oncoming vehicle. He was killed instantly and the woman, about age 30, who was driving normally in the opposite direction say police, was injured. She was treated by an ambulance that just happened to be on the road, and she was taken to the Chuv in Lausanne.
Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Two young men died after the car they were driving crashed into a wall in a curve on the Route du Bout du Monde, in the Champel district of Geneva, Friday evening 6 November. The driver, from canton Aargau, and his front seat passenger died immediately. Another passenger, a 17-year-old woman, was taken to hospital. She is in stable condition, according to the police report.
Last weekend three people died in two separate road accidents in Geneva. The latest accident brings to 18 the number of people killed on roads in Geneva in 2009.
Ecublens, Vaud, Switzerland (20 Minutes, Fre) – A 42-year-old man who lives in the area was killed after he was thrown from his car when it was hit by another one, in the early hours of Wednesday. The accident took place on the Pont bleu road in Ecublens. A 30-year-old driver entering the main road from a side road failed to give the right of way. The road was closed for several hours.
Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – A Portuguese man, 31, who lived in Geneva, died in a head-on crash with a taxi at 05:00 17 January, on the Route de Geneve in Lausanne. His two passengers were injured. Lausanne police are asking witnesses or anyone who can provide information to contact them by telephone at 021 315 1515.
The Jerusalem Post calls it the worst road accident in the nation’s history: 25 Russian travel agents were killed and 33 injured, 23 of them seriously injured, the when the bus carrying the newly arrived group overturned and fell down a ravine near Eijat, close to the Egyptian border and Red Sea. Police say the bus, whose driver had 22 previous convictions, was passing another bus in a no-passing zone on a blind curve. Moscow Times report
