Moment of bus crash with truck in France 23.10.2015 <br />Moment of bus crash with truck in France 23.10.2015 <br /> <br />At least 43 people, among them dozens of French pensioners and a small child, killed after a bus collides with a lorry in southwestern France. Follow latest updates <br /> <br />Forty-three people, most of them French pensioners on a day-trip and one toddler, died in a horrific road accident in which their bus burst into flames after smashing into a lorry. <br />The excited pensioners set off before dawn for a day of walking, dining and good company in the Béarn region in foothills of the Pyrenees, a leisurely two hours drive away. <br /> <br /> <br />But just a few minutes after leaving their pretty village of Petit-Palais in the heart of Bordeaux’s wine-growing region, most of them were dead, burnt alive inside their bus after it smashed into a lorry and burst into flames. <br /> <br />“I’ve lost too many people,” said Jean Solans in the village where most of the 41 pensioners who died in the crash were from. He said he had lost a brother, neighbours and friends in the crash that happened at 7.30 am local time on Friday. <br />The driver of the truck also died, along with his three-year-old son who was sitting in the cab next to him when the bus hit his vehicle on a bend in the road that runs through vineyards where grapes for the world-renowned Saint-Emilion wine are grown.
