A bus carrying 40 children and six adults went off the road near Corps on Saturday morning. Two adults are in “absolute emergency”.
By Quentin Marchal for Le Point
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Un human drama in the heart of the French Alps. As revealed The liberated Dauphinéa bus traveling on the N85 left the road at the level of the town of Corps and fell six meters into a ravine, Saturday March 4, around 8:30 a.m.
“The results of this accident are 2 adults classified as absolute emergency (the driver and an accompanying person) as well as 1 adult and 11 children classified as relative emergency. All the victims have been taken care of and are being evacuated to hospitals appropriate to the condition of the victims., depending on the prefecture. A first assessment reported four injured in “absolute emergency” including two children among the 46 occupants of the vehicle.
90 firefighters mobilized, an open investigation
The N85 was quickly closed to traffic to allow rescue teams to intervene. A civil security helicopter was called upon to facilitate the rapid treatment of the victims. Ninety firefighters from the Isère departmental fire and rescue service were mobilized to the scene of the tragedy.
According to information from our colleagues, the children and their companions were members of a summer camp and had spent a week in the region. Originally from Sceaux, in the Hauts-de-Seine, they had to go to Grenoble station to take a train to Paris. Contacted by Agence France-Presse, the holiday center of this town refused to make any declaration.
An investigation was opened by the gendarmes of the gendarmerie company of La Mure. The Route Napoléon, a very steep national road linking Grenoble to Gap, is known for its dangerousness, with frequent fatal road accidents, including one in July 2007 which claimed the lives of 26 Polish pilgrims.