# Dozens of children killed in Egyptian school bus/train crash **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dozens-of-children-killed-in-egyptian-school-bus-train-crash/641370 "2012-11-18T02:47:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dozens-of-children-killed-in-egyptian-school-bus-train-crash/641370/1 "2012-11-18T02:47:57Z")
This is truly awful. A train in Egypt [smashed](http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/11/17/15234545-dozens-of-children-killed-after-train-crashes-into-school-bus-in-egypt?lite) into a school bus, killing 47 people – most of them children. There are reports that the crossing had a guard, I guess to lower the roadway barriers, but he was asleep. The kids were 4 to 6 years old. What a horror. How devastating for that community. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dozens-of-children-killed-in-egyptian-school-bus-train-crash/641370/2 "2012-11-18T03:28:37Z")
Oh, how awful. ---
**Author:** ![\_Olive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/4af34b/32.png) [@\_Olive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_Olive)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2012, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dozens-of-children-killed-in-egyptian-school-bus-train-crash/641370/3 "2012-11-18T03:49:50Z")
That’s just awful. Reading the story made my stomach flip flop.