Een ernstig ongeval in het centrum van Blankenberge verwondde een 77-jarige fietser en verstoorde de Coast Tram

centre where the serious accident occurred

Blankenberge is a seaside municipality and city in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Blankenberge proper and the settlement of Uitkerke.

operator describing the Coast Tram and advising passengers to check disruption updates

Vlaamse Vervoersmaatschappij De Lijn, more commonly known as De Lijn, is a state-owned enterprise run by the Flemish Government in Belgium to provide public transport with about 2240 buses and 399 trams. De Lijn was founded in 1991 after the public transport companies of Antwerp and Ghent merged with the Flemish part of the NMVB.

coastal area served by the Coast Tram

De Belgische Kust als onderdeel van de Vlaamse Kust of Kuststreek is de landstreek waarmee België grenst aan de Noordzee. De lengte bedraagt 67 kilometer en omvat een tot 500 meter breed zandstrand met de tot 2,5 kilometer brede duinengordel erachter.

province whose coastal towns are linked by the tram service

West Flanders is the westernmost province of the Flemish Region, in Belgium. It is the only coastal Belgian province, facing the North Sea to the northwest. It has land borders with the Dutch province of Zeeland to the northeast, the Flemish province of East Flanders to the east, the Walloon province of Hainaut in the south and the French department of Nord to the west. Its capital is Bruges (Brugge).