Ex-trainer Jerko Tipuric (64) tells his story for the first time after he saved 16 children from a bus just before a train crash: “I am especially happy that they can still celebrate Christmas”

“I acted, yes. But how? Don’t know. At that moment you are on another planet.” Bus driver Jerko Tipuric (64), former professional football player and football coach, looks back in ‘Het Nieuwsblad’ on the accident in Veldegem (West Flanders) in which he saved the lives of 16 children two weeks ago. He evacuated them just in time for an oncoming train after his bus came to a standstill at a railway crossing.

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