Two die as train hits car
Published: 5 Sep 11 06:21 CET | Print version
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/35950/20110905/
Two young people died when their car hit a train in Horndal in Dalarna in central Sweden on Sunday evening.
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Police describe the dead as young people, although they have not been formally identified and the bodies have been taken to Uppsala for forensic examination, according to Sven Matzols, duty police officer in Dalarna.
In order to establish the identity of the dead, the police will first trace the owner of the car, which is registered to a person in Dalarna. Police suspect no offense in connection with the incident and have not questioned the driver.
"That is done at a later stage," Matzols said.
The fatal accident occurred at an unguarded railway crossing in the southern outskirts of Horndal, between Avesta and Sandviken, according to Håkan Jarl, traffic manager at Tågkompaniet, the company that manages traffic on the line.
The maximum speed at that junction is either 110 or 120 kilometers an hour, and Earl says that the train was at "full speed" at the time of the accident.
The driver, a woman in her 50s, is reported to feel okay under the circumstances. She has received help from a counsellor and will also later meet a doctor, according to Jarl.
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The last paragraph could have mentioned the driver to be '' the train's driver''.
It is obvious that no one has survived the crash as it was mentioned that the crash has completely demolished the Volvo.
What I found very surprising is why the crossing has no gate for such a high speed intersection.
Ladies, ladies. Please do not start making comments a la Streja.
A "driver", automobilist or vehiclist is a person who drives his own car.
A train is driven by a Locomotive Engineer; also called a Railroad Engineer, or Motorman. One who drives an electrically powered streetcar, locomotive, or subway train.
Do not translate from the Swedish word "lokförare", that is, if you understand Swedish. The word, translated into English, means "locomotive drivers", but here we are dealing and wealing in English, or not?
Welcome!
Stop proving that you know everything. Why not go and study Linguistic in the University? What I expect you to do is to observe a minute silence for the death and wish their family members well. Two people just died and you are here analyzing something that is not important.
May their souls rest in peace.
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@J.L. Belmar,
I am not proving that I know everything, but you still do not know 50% of the knowledge I have forgotten.
What I was trying to do, was something for other people not to get confused with the words "driver" and "motorman".
Please read in between lines so you can comment just a little bit better.
And please, do not report this comment like an "abuse", because you got it coming. Dig it?
Driver is the most widely used and understood common term in most of the English speaking countries ( i.e. counting the USA as one country) for a person male or female who is on board and controls a wheeled vehicle, be it car, or automobile if you wish, bus, train, tram etc.
@old git, please help me ask him again.