Black week in France leaves 8 dead students on the roads

Six children died on Thursday early in the morning, in France, in an accident involving a school bus and a wooden transport truck. The ...

Six children died on Thursday early in the morning, in France, in an accident involving a school bus and a wooden transport truck. The drivers of both vehicles were placed in detention to determine the causad the accident.

The accident occurred by 7:15 a.m. - an hour in Lisbon. A metallic object will come loose from the truck and hit the bus passed, while the reverse route. An investigation was opened and the two drivers were released from any alcohol consumption.

Resulted in another two injured in the accident in the southwest of the country, in Rochefort, which already have been French Minister of Education, Najat Belkacem. The help of the claim was made by 57 firefighters and three emergency medical mobile structures and resuscitation.

Segolene Royal, the French Minister for Transport, has also visited the site and said that, "in accordance with the other kids (who followed on the bus), it all happened very fast and the drivers could do nothing."

black week in the French school transport

On Wednesday, in the east, in Montbenoît, near the border with Switzerland, another tragic accident also involved a school bus: 2 teenagers, a 12 year old boy and a girl of 15, were killed and seven people were injured .

The bus was carrying 32 students of Doubs region when it crashed due, presumably, to the bad weather. The driver has lost control of the car on a narrow snow-covered road, "cut" between a mountain and a river.

The first results of the investigation determined that the driver was still about 70km / hour in a part of the pathway that allows walk the 90km / hour under normal conditions. The research demand will determine if speed was not excessive given the weather conditions at the time of the accident.

.@BCazeneuve exprime toute sa compassion aux familles des victimes touchées par le terrible accident de #Rochefort pic.twitter.com/5uIsnWk4Z5

— Ministère Intérieur (@Place_Beauvau) 11 fevereiro 2016