A head-on collision of two trains in Belgium killed at least 18 people and injured 55, and those figures may not be the final counts.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/02/15/belgium.train.crash/?hpt=Sbin
The accident is being called the worst rail crash in Belgium in 25 years.
The crash took place in Halle, during the morning rush hour at 8:30 a.m. local time and 2:30 a.m. Eastern Time.
Railway operators Infrabel and SNBC said they didn’t know yet what caused the accident.
It took 30 minutes for rescue crew to get to the scene.
The number of those killed or hurt seemed tentative at best. At one point the mayor of Halle said that 20 passengers had died.
As the full extent of this tragedy is assessed, we hope that the issue of brain injury will get the attention it deserves. As we commented at length in our blogs after the Jamaica Air Crash, brain injury is virtually assured in accidents of this severity, even with those who walk away from the crash.
See:
http://www.tbilaw.com/blog/2009/12/christmas-miracle-in-jamaica.html
http://www.tbilaw.com/blog/2009/12/followup-to-injuries-in-jamaica-air.html