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MowCowWhoHow III

(2,103 posts)
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 03:48 AM Oct 2015

At least 39 dead in road accident in southwestern France

Source: AFP

Bordeaux (AFP) - At least 39 people, most of them adults, were killed when a bus collided with a lorry in southwestern France early Friday, a fire service official said.

He said 38 of the dead were passengers on the bus, while the other fatality was the driver of the lorry. The two vehicles collided head-on near the town of Libourne.

Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/least-39-dead-road-accident-southwestern-france-071849831.html

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At least 39 dead in road accident in southwestern France (Original Post) MowCowWhoHow III Oct 2015 OP
Horrible. So sad. smirkymonkey Oct 2015 #1
Link to BBC update nitpicker Oct 2015 #2
France bus crash: Pensioners killed in truck collision mahatmakanejeeves Oct 2015 #3
What a tragedy and loss of local elders on a day trip outing. That's a beautiful, scenic area appalachiablue Oct 2015 #4
Message auto-removed Name removed Oct 2015 #5
So sorry to see something like this BlueMTexpat Oct 2015 #6

mahatmakanejeeves

(56,895 posts)
3. France bus crash: Pensioners killed in truck collision
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:17 AM
Oct 2015

This is the previously linked BBC story, updated. I had started a thread. I self-deleted it when I saw this one.

France bus crash: Pensioners killed in truck collision

36 minutes ago
From the section Europe

At least 42 people, most of them pensioners on a day trip, have been killed in a head-on collision between a bus and a truck in south-west France.

The crash happened on a country road near Puisseguin in the Gironde wine region, east of Bordeaux. Both vehicles then caught fire.

France's president promised a full investigation into what he called an "immense tragedy". ... It is the worst French road disaster since 1982, when 52 people died.

The bus collided with the timber truck at 07:30 local time (05:30 GMT), at what local residents described as a notoriously dangerous bend in the road. ... Both vehicles quickly caught fire.

appalachiablue

(41,053 posts)
4. What a tragedy and loss of local elders on a day trip outing. That's a beautiful, scenic area
Fri Oct 23, 2015, 09:55 AM
Oct 2015

we visited including St. Emilion for a friends wedding in Bordeaux. How very sad.

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