Leo at Hospital Press Conference - Dordrecht - Holland - 18 March 2002
On Monday
morning 18 March 2002 I heard on the morning news about
an accident with a trailer and a Dutch tourist coach near Metz in France at night.
An
Italian trailer drove through the crash barrier of the A31
between Metz and Nancy
to the other side of the highway and crashed head-on
with a coach with 61 Dutch tourists going home from a ski
holiday.
French police thinks the truck driver either
fell ill or dozed off.
In the
accident 7 people were killed. 5 of them came from Holland.
50 people in the coach were injured, some very bad.
Only a
few hundred meters behind the Dutch bus there was another Dutch
tourist bus
full of physician and nurses of the Albert
Schweitzer Hospital (ASZ) from Dordrecht
coming back from a personel ski weekend.
They
took care of the first aid of the people in the bus
before the French medical assistance took over.
After
they arrived in the hospital in Dordrecht in the afternoon
two of the physician held a press conference in the hospital.
• The 23 March 2002
issue of the ASZ-magazine Aspect had an article about this.
Above you can see which photo they used to anounce it on the
cover page...
I
interviewed the gynaecologist Leen Pijpers (in the red jacket)
for the afternoon news program
about this world news on Radio Rijnmond.
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