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.
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(56,895 posts)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
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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)we visited including St. Emilion for a friends wedding in Bordeaux. How very sad.
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BlueMTexpat
(15,349 posts)happening to anyone anywhere.