Train traffic has been interrupted between Zottegem and Oudenaarde since 4 p.m. this Wednesday, due to a serious accident, reports The last news. A motorist found himself on the tracks, where he was struck by a train, which dragged him for several hundred meters, and then by a second train arriving in the opposite direction to the first.
The circumstances of the accident are still unclear, but the driver of the vehicle did not survive, he died before help arrived. The latter took charge of the passengers stranded in the trains, providing them with bottled water while waiting for the arrival of replacement buses.