Yesterday (21/4/12) 125 people were injured in the Netherlands when two commuter trains collided near Amsterdam. Speaking with minimal information and possibly crashing the end of the Bahrain Grand Prix I would say that this is a response to the Belgian Bus Crash.
For the last five years or so disagreements between the Flemish of "Dutch" speaking parts of Belgium and the French speaking parts of Belgium have left the country without a functioning government. In this time the nations was run by the Monarchy and the civil service who were particularly violent with the Halle train crash in 2010 and the gun and grenade attack in Leige in December 2011. Belgium now has a functioning government so the internal element of the Belgian Bus Crash was to provoke a discussion between the Monarchy and the new government over what is considered acceptable behaviour. The Netherlands train crash appears to be an attempt by the Netherlands to influence the Dutch half of that discussion while the French half is distracted by the first round of the French Presidential election.
It also seems to be a stress response to the recent Pakistan air crash which coming the day after the Indian missile test was a bit random.
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