42 killed in France as coach carrying elderly and disabled persons collide with a lorry

It was a tragedy of no mean proportions in which at least 42 people are believed to have lost their lives when a coach carrying elderly and disabled passengers collided with a lorry causing both vehicles to burst into flames in France. Many of the victims have been burnt alive after getting trapped in the wreckage and were unable to smash the windows to escape.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 23 October 2015.

The coach was reduced to a charred shell that had been entirely burned in the worst road accident in France in three decades.
There were 49 elderly persons in the coach and they were on an excursion when the accident happened near the village of Puisseguin among the vineyards of the St Emilion region, east of Bordeaux. The accident occurred on a bend that is known to be dangerous.
The driver of the coach was thought to be among the dead and the remaining were passengers in the coach. Eight people managed to escape from the burning coach but, four of them are seriously injured.
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