Edition: 323
Date: 19-05-03
At least 28 people died and another 47 were injured when a coach taking German tourists to Spain for a holiday crashed into a barrier, hit an electrical pole and fell down an embankment. The accident occurred on the A6 motorway at Lyon in south-east France at 5 o’clock on Saturday morning, and it seems the vehicle went into a skid after trying to overtake on a bend while travelling too fast. Many of the passengers were trapped inside the wreckage of the vehicle and had to be cut out by rescue workers, and some who were thrown out of the coach were crushed to death when it overturned. The French transport secretary, Dominique Bussereau, visited the scene and described it as an “absolute horror”, and President Jacques Chirac sent his condolences to the German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, saying he was “greatly shocked” and expressing his sympathy and that of the French people, to the injured and to the victims’ families.
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