to think it must be a slow news day, as the BBC are still covering the Ecuador bus crash?

[nannynick]

Someone explain to me why the BBC are still talking about the Ecuador bus crash. Yes people died, yes some of those people were British. Some people on here may know the people who died, or their relatives.

But British people die EVERY DAY. Most die in our country. Yet the BBC are not talking about the people who die in our country, such as the people who die on British roads due to other people driving too fast, or without due care and attention.

Am I missing something? What's special about this case, to make it still appear on the 10pm news?

I was saying the same thing to DH. The number of people that are killed on our roads and never rate a mention! Something to do with them being young, pretty, middle class etc etc.

bloody hell, it's only been a day!

I think if there was a bus crash in this country in which 5 teenagers and young people died like this, they would focus on it for this long and longer. Yes, there are accidents every day in which people die but incidents like this are still, thankfully, rare. That's what makes it newsworthy.

Anyway, it's a well-recognised phenomenon that the farther away from home you die, the more newsworthy is your demise.

YABU, 5 sets of parents have lost their children in a senseless tragedy. Have a bit of compassion fgs.

Had compassion yesterday, when I first heard about it.
Now I'm wondering what is special about the case... why Gordon Brown is being quoted in news reports. Why the BBC are considering it to be significantly important to be on the 10pm BBC1 news. Is there something going on?

time of year, people making decisions about gap years, trying to put people off etc

and it has only been a day!

Oh, you must have been really pissed off with the 9/11 coverage going on about people that didn't die in our country, some of them were probably young, pretty and middle class aswell! How very annoying for you.

what does it matter that they were middle class and why does somebody on mumsnet always try to get that in as some kind of a put down. five young women died in tragic circumstances, show some compassion.

Here here nancy.

I hope you would think differently if and when any child of yours is on a gap year trip.

My heart was in my mouth when I heard that one girl was from my county as my DD's school has already had one girl killed on her gap year trip.

There must have be thousands of parents feeling it could have been their child.

I am surprised at you nannynick

Bloody hell, how insensitive.

You can always turn over if you are that fed up of it.

agree with op

I've been very moved by that and the Mark Speight story.

I thought about Xenia - didn't one of the girls go to the same school one of her DDs goes/went to?

yes very yawnsome for you, how do you cope with the endless news/coverage about celebrities and their latest shoes, dresses, affairs??

I feel very sorry for the girls and their families, it's a terrible tragedy. But I found the news coverage over the top and voyeuristic, as if some people's deaths are more important because of the way they look or their age.