A coach collided with a
lorry in south-western France early Friday, 42 people, most of them elderly,
were killed.
All but one of the victims
were passengers on the coach, while the other fatality was the driver of the
lorry, local authorities in the prefecture of Gironde said.
The two vehicles collided
head-on near the village of Puisseguin north of Bordeaux. The crash is the
deadliest in France since 1982.
“The French government has
fully mobilised after this terrible tragedy,” President Francois Hollande said
from Athens, where he is on an official visit.
Five passengers who managed
to escape from the coach, which had caught fire — sustained light injuries.
Three others were unharmed, local authorities said.
The coach, which was
carrying 49 passengers and a driver, had departed early Friday from a village
near the site of the accident to take its elderly passengers out on an
excursion.
Several emergency vehicles
were dispatched to the scene.
VERY. SAD. STORY.. THEY SHOULD HAVE. DIED PEACEFULLY ON THEIR BEDS.
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