Date 23 October 2015 | Number of deaths 43 Injuries 8 | |
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Time 07:30 local time (05:30 UTC) | ||
The 2015 Puisseguin road crash occurred on 23 October 2015, at 07:30 local time (05:30 UTC). At least 43 people, including a three-year-old boy, died when a bus and a lorry collided in Puisseguin, a commune in south-western France.
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Crash
The crash happened at around 07:30 on the morning of Friday, 23 October 2015 at a bend on Departmental Road 17 not far south of Puisseguin. Authorities said they believed the lorry, carrying logs, lost control on a bend and jackknifed into the coach's path. Both vehicles burst into flames as a result of the collision.
Casualties
Forty-one of the dead were on the bus, and the other two were the driver of the lorry and his three-year-old son. Most of the dead were elderly people on the bus, which had just set off from the nearby town of Petit-Palais-et-Cornemps. The passengers belonged to that town's seniors' club.