OTHER FACTS The bus, carrying about thirty teenagers, would be off the road on a snowy part of the floor …
At least two dead and seven injured. This is the terrible toll of the serious accident involving a school bus which took place Wednesday morning at Montbenoit, Doubs. Two teenagers aged 12 and 15 died. The prognosis of seven injured is not engaged, said the chief of staff of the prefect of Doubs.
The bus “was off the road,” explained the operational center of the gendarmerie Doubs. The center said that “weather conditions (were) bad” on the D437 where the accident took place near Montflovin, a small town near the Swiss border.
The reasons for the exit drive from the bus, which was traveling on a narrow path between a mountain and a river, have not been specified, but no collision with another vehicle took place.
excessive speed involved?
Christine de Goulard Curraize, Deputy Attorney prosecutors Besancon, said the first evidence of a possible were excessive speed, given the weather conditions (falls snow, wind gusts and slippery).
the school bus was going to the Lucie Aubrac college in the town of Doubs (near Pontarlier), said the Ministry of Education. According to Senior Assistant College, Franck Lucea, 33 teenagers were in the car, “college students and perhaps high school students.”
The road is now cut and fifty firefighters are present. Christine Bouquin, President (UMP-UDI various right) Doubs County Council, the prefect of the department and the sub-prefect of the district of Pontarlier are expected on site, reports France 3 Franche-Comté.
the alcohol tests and adverse drug
the prosecutor of Besançon, Edwige Roux-Morizot, who visited the site, said the driver, leading to the hospital after the accident, was, as is the procedure, placed in late morning into custody as part of an investigation for “involuntary homicide and injuries”.
alcohol and drug tests, performed on the driver of 25 years, were negative. The man, who had obtained his driver license in 2015 and worked in the transport company since last December, was “in shock,” have we learned from the departmental council of the Doubs .
A special number set up
A hotline for families has been set up by the hospital Pontarlier: 0805090125
the President of the Republic, Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior showed their emotion after this tragic accident.
Francois Hollande expressed his condolences to the families of the young victims.
Manuel Valls expressed his “immense sadness at the deaths of two college students in a school bus accident in Doubs” on his Twitter account.
Bernard Cazeneuve, about he expressed his “emotion” in a statement
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