“Yeah, this could have been a lot worse.” Although a 53-year-old man is fighting for his life in hospital, they realize in Kortemark that the human toll could be a lot heavier after the accident with a truck on Wednesday afternoon. Minutes after an unconscious trucker rammed into two cars and drove into a barn next to a house, large groups of schoolchildren passed by. “I can’t imagine what would have happened then,” says Katleen (62), whose newly sold Porsche was completely destroyed.
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Trucker wreaks havoc, but even greater drama is avoided in Handzame: “Minutes later, large groups of children passed here. You must not think about it”
