Coach accident in alton village.

[eggzter]

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080818/tuk-one-person-killed-in-coach-crash-6323e80.html

 

One person died and more than 60 people were injured after a coach crashed into a garden in Alton, Staffordshire, emergency services said.

Seven people were still trapped in the wreckage and two people were airlifted to hospital after the coach crashed over a bridge and then careered into a garden.

 

Two helicopters, eight ambulances, four rapid response cars, a doctor and two first responders have been sent to the scene at Station Road.

[Vekoma Fan Boy]

What exactly do they mean by coach?

[Airtime&Gravity]

I assume it was a coach bus, and the accident was in Alton, not at Alton Towers.

[BlibBlab]

Yeah by coach they just mean a bus.

 

The roads in Alton are really bad as there are so many tight turns and narrow parts on what is a really hilly terrain. Every time I go to Alton Towers i'm suprised that a bus can manoeuver some of the turns. When I was leaving last time I was there a car had crashed on one of the blind bends just a few hundred meters from the park gates. Still its very upsetting to hear that someone died and so many people were injured.

[mash80]

Saw this on the local news tonight. Apparently it happened shortly after the park closed, the coach (a double decker) was going downhill, through S-bends in driving rain. After losing control and hitting a car heavily the coach clipped a few other cars before falling 45ft (though another report I heard said 20ft) into a garden.

 

The passengers on the coach were a group of foreign workers on a day trip to the park and there were very few that actually spoke any English which I can only imagine added to the mayhem. The news report said they were still trying to get translators in to understand fully what happened. Last I heard, the 2 people who were airlifted out were in 'serious' condition, there was 1 death and around 60 people with minor injuries.

 

^Yea the roads around Alton must be a nightmare for coach drivers, especially a double decker.

[terrancew_hod]

When I took the shuttle back from Alton Towers, there was an accident between a truck and a car. It wasn't too bad, but everyone was gasping in shock. I wasn't impressed... living in Miami, I'm used to them flipping over and being engulfed in flames!

 

Anyway, those streets are really narrow and I'm glad I didn't have to drive!

 

Terry