Wetteren after the issue of the train accident in Wetteren, may not be forwarded to the criminal court. Research shows that the driver is the sole culprit in the story is, but he is now deceased. The civil parties will therefore be for the civil courts have to decide who the miljoenenschade and will pay the costs.
In the night of 3 to 4 may in 2013 derailed a freight train with toxic cargo acrylnitril, which the couple immediately fire took hold. After the accident followed a gasramp, because toxic firefighting water spread in the sewers under the city centre of Wetteren. One man, the 64-year-old Willy Van Poucke, breathed the toxic fumes and died in his home a few kilometres further. Ultimately, nearly 2,000 people were evacuated and there were thousands of blood samples taken from the affected residents of Wetteren.
