Archive for November, 2009

What started out a school trip to a careers convention in Caen on the 19th November, turned into a very nasty accident for 38 school children and their teachers from Juvigny le Tetre, the driver lost control of the coach after being clipped by an on - coming milk tanker. The coach then hit the rocks on the verge and ended up skidding along the rocky bank for some distance, throwing the passengers from their seats. The passenger side windows shattered and blew in injuring many children with flying glass. The coach finally came to rest when it hit a granite rock.

A school assistant was very seriously injured, her arm was badly damaged after being dragged along by the bus as it hit the rocks in the ditch. She was heard to scream "my arms gone" by the children, after lifting the coach by crane, she was then air lifted to hospital by helicopter to Caen CHU. 11 children also needed hospital treatment and were taken to Avranches and St Hilaire hospitals.

Over 40 sapeurs pompiers and 8 ambulances arrived at the scene of the accident within minutes from St Pois and other outlying districts. All the children and staff not seriously injured where taken to St Pois where they were then treated at the Salle de Fete. They were kept there until midday, when they were then taken back to school for lunch and were kept in school under observation and care by doctors.

There is now an investigation by the Brecéy police.

 

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