Forty-Two Pensioners Killed In France Auto-Crash

At least 42 pensioners have been killed in France, after their bus collided with a truck while on an excursion.

The BBC reports that the incident took place on Friday, October 23, near Puisseguin in the Gironde wine region, east of Bordeaux, not long after the bus had set off from a town nearby.
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Gilles Savary, a lawmaker from the region, said the accident was the worst crash in the region in recent years.
While speaking on BFM television, Savary said “a bus company from the town of Libourne was leading the group on a tourist trip. The bus collided with a truck near the village of Puisseguin on Friday, and authorities say at least 40 people were killed.”

French president, Francois Hollande, in a statement issued by his office, offered condolences to those affected.

Hollande said: “It is a great tragedy,” adding that the relatives of the victims could be assured of “the solidarity of the whole nation.”
An official for the national gendarme service said the crash occurred near the town of Puisseguin, stressing that the death toll may have been so unusually high because the bus caught fire.
Scores of emergency workers in the region have been mobilized to help.
Investigations into the crash are continuing, and authorities are yet to give clear details of how many people were on the bus and their nationalities.