Fatal Buggenhout collision: experienced driver Nordine tragedy explained

No one can explain this tragedy in East Flanders. At 49 years old, Nordine knew his profession perfectly. Present at the scene, his loved ones testified to their profound shock at the accident. "Nordine had been a driver for nearly ten years," they simply told Belgian media DHnet. The mystery remains complete regarding the reasons for the vehicle’s presence on the tracks, especially since spokespeople for the Infrabel network assure that the barriers were indeed lowered before the train’s arrival.

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The impact with the railway convoy was of unprecedented brutality. According to observations by a neighborhood resident, the vehicle was "catapulted" in the space of two seconds. On board this minibus were nine children, supervised by a monitor who also died in the collision. Fate proved particularly cruel for this second victim: she was making her very first trip as a replacement for the usual supervisor, who had fallen ill that morning.

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The journey was nearly at its destination. The group was heading to the specialized Richtpunt campus, only seven hundred meters from the accident zone. The shock quickly spread among staff, while management gathered parents in a gymnasium before releasing the students. Around the judicial perimeter, cordoned off amid European journalists, the neighborhood remained in shock. A resident sums up this terror: "I am a rescue professional, I have already had to intervene in this type of accident but when it happens in front of your house, it’s not the same."