A revised official account a coach crash in central France says four people were killed and 25 injured in the accident in the early hours of Sunday morning.<br />Three of those hurt, including a two-year-old child, are said to be in a very serious condition.<br /><br /> It’s the second fatal bus crash involving Portuguese nationals on the same French road in under a year.<br /><br /> The bus was carrying more than 30 Portuguese nationals to Switzerland when the coach came off the road shortly before 4.30am near Charolles in the Saone-et-Loire department.<br /><br /> Over 70 emergency workers were sent to the scene between the towns of Paray-le-Monial and Macon.<br /><br /> It’s thought the cause may have been ice on the road, the RN79, which has a reputation for being dangerous and is known as the “la route de la mort (the route of death)”. <br /><br /> “It is early to give you the exact circumstances that are to be determined but what is certain is that it is a loss of control, most likely in a place that is slippery, the road was icy this morning. About other circumstances it will take some time to determine them,” said the public prosecutor for Macon, Karine Malara.<br /><br /> After the crash the authorities in the region advised motorists not to take to the road because of the conditions.<br /><br /> Last March “another crash’:http://www.euronews.com/2016/03/25/tragedy-in-france-12-portuguese-nationals-die-in-road-accident on a different section of the same road killed 12 people – again Portuguese nationals – when a minibus was in collision with a lorry in the neighbouring Allier department.<br />
