At least 42 dead in French pensioners coach crash

23 October 2015 - 14:14
By Jordane BERTRAND

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.

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