Seven people, including two children, needed hospital treatment after a coach carrying 34 British holidaymakers crashed in the French Alps. The coach was taking the party from the Alpine ski resort of La Rosière to Chambéry airport when it skidded off the motorway and flipped on to its side. Witnesses described the vehicle swerving out control, leaving the road, and then coming to rest by guard rails at the edge of a ravine. Lucky escape: Seven people were hurt, none seriously, when this coach carrying 34 British tourists crashed on its way from an Alpine ski resort to a nearby airport where it was due to meet a plane back to the UK
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Around 50 firefighters were involved in the rescue operation after the crash
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Those hurt suffered only minor injuries and most escaped unhurt
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It had been on its way to Chambéry airport to meet a flight back to the UK
He added: ‘Around fifteen people underwent examinations and treatment following the accident, with seven taken to hospital in @placeholder.’