Eleven tourists killed in coach crash
Some 11 tourists are known to have been killed in a coach crash in western France, with 39 more injured.
According to the Daily Mail, police officers are looking into claims that the driver of the coach fell asleep before the vehicle crashed into barriers on the motorway’s central reservation and overturned.
However, the BBC quotes a passenger as saying: “It was going too quickly. He wanted to overtake a lorry but didn’t manage to, because the coach started to zigzag, so he tried to return to his lane. And then things got worse. He didn’t manage to regain control of himself and crashed into the barrier. The coach rolled over twice and we got stuck.”
The Mail states that the coach, which had some 50 passengers on board, was en route from Brussels to Morocco when the tragedy occurred, south of the city of Poitiers in the early hours of yesterday morning. Six of the injured are reported to be in a serious condition.
Report by Tim Gillett, News From Abroad
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