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Title: Bad Train Accident
Post by: Moi on June 05, 2007, 04:10:37 PM

V/line train on Swan Hill line crashed with a B-double, killing 6 and 52 injured, 12 of which are critical.

I think it happened at Kerang  >:(

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Title: Re: Bad Train Accident
Post by: mightytiges on June 05, 2007, 04:24:49 PM

I just heard it too on the 4 o'clock news. Bloody hell  :(

Title: Re: Bad Train Accident
Post by: Moi on June 05, 2007, 05:04:10 PM

8 dead apparently now  :(

Title: Re: Bad Train Accident
Post by: mightytiges on June 05, 2007, 05:38:35 PM

They showed pictures of the crash on Ch 10 news. Everyone on the train was at least injured. The carriages of the train were ripped open like sardine cans  :'(. The driver of the B-double is okay apparently.

Idiots should look before crossing train tracks  :banghead.

Title: Re: Bad Train Accident
Post by: WilliamPowell on June 05, 2007, 07:31:37 PM

Reporting 10 dead now.

Certainly puts things into perspective

Title: Re: Bad Train Accident
Post by: mightytiges on June 05, 2007, 08:25:17 PM

Certainly does WP.

The crossing had lights and bells too. Apparently the B-double driver saw the train at the last second, turned the truck sideways to avoid it and crashed into the middle of the moving train slicing it open  :(.

Title: Re: Bad Train Accident
Post by: one-eyed on June 05, 2007, 09:34:00 PM

11 now confirmed dead  :'(. 3 still missing.

Title: Re: Bad Train Accident
Post by: one-eyed on June 06, 2007, 04:32:03 AM

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21856950-661,00.html

 :(

Title: Re: Bad Train Accident
Post by: one-eyed on June 07, 2007, 05:01:28 PM

The truck driver has been charged.

Title: RFC gives support after Kerang train disaster
Post by: one-eyed on June 14, 2007, 01:47:30 PM

Train victim's gift of strength
Herald-Sun
Grant McArthur
June 14, 2007 12:00am

SHARISE McMonnies has a special guardian angel looking over her. Just two months before the Kerang rail disaster, Rosanne McMonnies raised money for the hospital which is now working to save the life of her little sister.

Sharise McMonnies, 15, is still in an induced coma at the Royal Children's Hospital.

Rosanne, 17, and their father, Geoff, 50, did not survive the tragic smash.

Her mother, Julie, and sisters Sarah and Carmen are keeping shifts by her bedside while trying to come to terms with their own grief.

It is a far cry from the scenes of April, when Rosanne and Julie led the Robinvale Secondary College team in the Run For the Kids to aid the Royal Children's Hospital.

Earlier this year a family friend involved in the American Women's Auxiliary raised money for the hospital to buy new ventilators – the same machines which have sustained Sharise since the June 5 crash

........
At least two AFL clubs have also shown their support.

Richmond, for whom Geoff lined up in the under-19s in the 1970s, wore black armbands last weekend, as did the Western Bulldogs, where Geoff's cousin, Wayne Campbell, is a specialist coach.

Full article at: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21901100-661,00.html