Accident between a school bus and a truck near Arras : a death – The World

The reasons for the collision are unknown. The person killed is the driver of the school bus carrying a dozen children. Three injured are in a critical state.

An accident between a school bus and a truck near Arras was one death and three serious injuries, including a schoolboy of 15 years hospitalized unconscious in a state of” absolute urgency “, said on Monday, November 14, the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais.

Around 7: 45 p.m., on the national road 25 in the town of Bavincourt, a heavy weight smashed into the bus, by time of fog and then that the floor was slippery. Under the violence of the shock, the car is put across the floor, on a section of rural road. The left front of the car has been fully pressed. The reasons for the collision are, for the time being, unknown.

Ten miners shocked

The person killed is the driver of the bus that was carrying twelve or thirteen children, the collège du Val du Gy, to the city of Avesnes-le-Comte.

Two people are in a state of” absolute urgency “. It is the driver of the truck, who was in hospital in Arras, and a schoolboy of 15 years, which has been désincarcéré and transported unconscious to the hospital centre (CH) of Amiens, according to the same source. Another collégienne, a child 13 years of age, was ” critical “, according to the secretary general of the prefecture, Marc Del Grande, now on the premises.

Ten miners, shocked, have been transferred to a cell for emergency medico-psychological CH Arras, according to the prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais.

” Thoughts moved “

This accident comes as the prime minister, Manuel Valls, is in the Pas-de-Calais Monday morning, where he must visit a reception centre and orientation (CAO) at Croisilles, near Arras, to 11 hours. the ” Thoughts moved after the road accident near Arras. In solidarity with the families of the victims and the parents of students “, tweeted the head of government.

The national road between Arras and Lens was closed to traffic and a detour has been put in place, according to the coordination centre along the road.