https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed A driver who fatally ran over a woman who had lain down on a motorway with the intention of committing suicide has been convicted of negligent homicide. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170622/swiss-court-convicts-driver-for-killing-suicidal-woman-who-lay-on-motorway Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:15:30 +0200 swiss-court-convicts-driver-for-killing-suicidal-woman-who-lay-on-motorway A Russian couple died and their two children were seriously injured when their car came off the road in Switzerland on Saturday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20170109/russian-tourists-killed-on-icy-swiss-road Mon, 09 Jan 2017 10:07:26 +0100 russian-tourists-killed-on-icy-swiss-road It was a case of bad back-seat driving in Basel on Wednesday when a man accidentally drove his car down a flight of steps after his passenger directed him the wrong way. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160825/navigation-error-ends-badly-for-basel-driver Thu, 25 Aug 2016 11:49:33 +0200 navigation-error-ends-badly-for-basel-driver A Swiss court has sentenced a 28-year-old man to five and a half years in jail for attempted murder after he deliberately drove his car into a pair of joggers after an altercation with them. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160603/driver-jailed-for-running-car-into-aargau-joggers Fri, 03 Jun 2016 13:57:50 +0200 driver-jailed-for-running-car-into-aargau-joggers A Swiss national died and 30 people were injured, two of them seriously, in a highway pile-up on Sunday after heavy snow in central Slovenia, police said. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141229/swiss-man-dies-in-slovenia-pile-up Mon, 29 Dec 2014 12:09:00 +0100 swiss-man-dies-in-slovenia-pile-up