Bones discovered at the foot of the Matterhorn have been identified as the remains of a Japanese national who disappeared on the iconic mountain four years ago, Swiss police said Monday October 1st.
The opening of the Swiss hunting season has proved fatal for more than just the prey, with several hunters losing their lives in accidents over the past few days.
Regional rail traffic was expected to remain disrupted until Monday noon on the Gotthard railway following a rockslide on the trans-Alpine line linking northern Switzerland to the southern canton of Ticino.
The number of serious bicycle accidents in Switzerland last year rose 14 percent from 2013, while the total of deadly or injury-causing mishaps involving e-bikes set a new record, the accident prevention bureau (BFU) said in its annual report.
The total number of deaths from public transport accidents in Switzerland shot up to 41 in 2014, an increase of 11 from the previous year, official figures released on Tuesday show.
A collision between two Swiss trains northwest of Zurich on February 20th that injured six people was caused by a regional train (S-Bahn) that failed to respect a stop signal, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) said on Friday.
An investigation is under way into the death of a man in a wheelchair who was killed on Tuesday by a Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) train travelling through the Roggwil-Wynau train station in the canton of Bern.
Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) is stepping up action to reduce the number of people in Switzerland who commit suicide by throwing themselves in front of trains.
<p><span lang="EN-GB">The first six months of 2011 saw the number of mountain accidents climb by over 50 percent compared to the same period last year.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-pagination: none; mso-layout-grid-align: none; text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">One out of three work-related accidents in Switzerland involved a foreign worker last year, according to newly released figures.</span><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; mso-bidi-font-family: Verdana; mso-ansi-language: EN-US;"><br /></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>A truck dropped one tonne of cherries on a Swiss motorway near Basel, spreading a sticky fruit film over a kilometre and disrupting traffic for hours, a report on Wednesday said.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: small;">A new Swiss education campaign has been launched with the aim of reducing accidents in ball sports by 10 percent by 2014.</span></p>
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