Bus carrying 40 primary schoolchildren plunges down slope in French Alps injuring 18
Bus carrying 40 primary school children plunges into a creek in the French Alps, 18 students require treatment and the driver is seriously injured in hospital
- The crash took place on Saturday near the town of Corps in the French Alps
- French media reports that the weather conditions were clear when the bus left the road
- The ‘most likely scenario’ is that the driver has had a medical problem
A bus carrying 40 primary school students returning from a trip to the French Alps plunged off a wooded slope into a creek on Saturday, leaving the driver and his partner in hospital with serious injuries, authorities said.
Eighteen children and one other adult were treated for minor injuries, said Fabien Mulyk, mayor of the town of Corps where the incident took place.
“They’re all fine,” he told The Associated Press.
The regional prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation.
The mayor said the “most likely scenario” is that the driver had a medical problem while behind the wheel.
A bus carrying 40 elementary school students returning from a trip to the French Alps plunged off a wooded slope into a creek near the town of Corps on Saturday
Eighteen children and one other adult were treated for minor injuries after the crash
Local officials told French media that weather conditions were clear when the bus left the road and that there was no ice or snow on the section where the bus vehicle crashed.
They said all the kids were wearing seatbelts.
A photo of the city published online showed the bus leaning against the slope of a ravine in a tangle of dried branches with the windshield shattered.
According to French media, the children returned from a summer camp in the Hautes-Alpes. The mirror reports.
They were on their way to Grenoble station and then back to their hometown of Sceaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine.