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A Dutch-Tourist Bus Crash Kills Five in Switzerland

TL;DR

The Local and SRF file a Dutch coach overturned in Graubünden. Swiss police name five dead. A crash is not a closed alpine.

MSM Perspective

The Local files several dead on Thursday. SRF files Swiss police at five. Names of hometowns belong to later copy.

X Perspective

Feeds treat a coach crash as a vanished canton.

A Dutch tourist coach overturned in eastern Switzerland on Thursday. [1] The Local filed several dead. [1] SRF filed Swiss police naming five killed and about 40 injured in Graubünden. [2] Print five as the police clock. Do not spend later hometown lists that belong to a later edition.

No other vehicle was involved in Thursday's police sentence. Cause remains under investigation. A construction zone is a location, not a verdict. Print the crash. Do not print a convicted driver.

Print five. Print injured. Leave a named prosecution to the edition that owns a named prosecution.
Five remains the Swiss police clock on this Thursday desk, not a later hometown roster from the Netherlands.
Thursday is not a closed Engadine.

Charter buses in Alpine construction zones combine the worst variables: unfamiliar roads, narrowed lanes, tight schedules. Thursday's crash site had all three. Investigations start with the road.

Construction zones narrow Alpine roads by design; buses widen the risk by size. Thursday's combination proved fatal. The road gets the first questions.

Dutch dead on a Swiss road split the story between two countries. One will want names; the other wants a cause. Thursday sits with the police figure that both will have to share.

Dutch dead on a Swiss Alpine road split two governments. Thursday sits with the police figure. Names and causes come later and separately.

Thursday sits with the police figure both governments will share. Alpine roads and buses are a fatal combination. Causes come later.

Causes come later. Names and causes come later and separately. Thursday sits with the police figure.

-- ANNA WEBER, Berlin

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