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Post by ARENA on Oct 23, 2015 11:21:54 GMT
At least 42 people, most of them elderly, were killed when a coach collided with a lorry and caught fire in southwest France on Friday, in the country's worst road accident for three decades.
The coach was carrying a club of elderly people on an excursion when it collided with the lorry near the village of Puisseguin among the vineyards of the St Emilion region, east of Bordeaux.
Many of the victims were thought to have died in the fire, according to emergency workers and local authorities in the department of Gironde.
Images shown on French television showed the coach as a charred shell that had been entirely burned.
"I saw a cloud of smoke," said local resident Yvette Seguy on France's i-Tele TV station, adding that it took place on a bend that is known to be dangerous.
The driver of the coach was thought to be among the dead. The rest of the victims were passengers on the coach, officials said.
My two youngest live/work in the Bordeaux area and travel that road quite a lot.
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Post by chusty64 on Oct 23, 2015 19:10:32 GMT
Absolutely awful. I hope they didn't suffer too much.
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