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Details are sketchy but a British transfer coach is on fire with trapped passengers on the descent from Alpe d'Huez at the moment. It appears the brakes gave out on the descent and the coach hit a cliff and burst into flames.
Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Tue 16-04-13 20:26; edited 1 time in total
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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davidof, 
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| davidof wrote: |
| Details are sketchy but a British transfer coach is on fire with trapped passengers on the descent from Alpe d'Huez at the moment. It appears the brakes gave out on the descent and the coach hit a cliff and burst into flames. |
3 dead, 4 seriously injured: http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/societe/fait-divers/au-trois-morts-et-quatre-blesses-grave-dans-accident-de-car-pres-de-l-alpe-d-huez_1240801.html
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Dramatique accident en Isère. Au moins trois personnes sont décédées ce mardi après-midi dans un accident de car, près de la station de l'Alpe-d'Huez. Quatre autres personnes sont grièvement blessées, a indiqué la préfecture de l'Isère.
L'autocar "a percuté la falaise dans le virage numéro 21 et a pris feu avec trois personnes restées coincées à l'intérieur", précise un porte-parole. Le bus redescendait de la station de ski au moment du drame.
Les victimes seraient de nationalité britannique. |
What an horrific way to go.
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Terrible news, RIP
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Awful news, so very sad
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Shocking news. Twitter reports coming in that death toll revised down to one
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Everything is closed. That's a staff coach.
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According to Sky revised to one dead, any is tragic though
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| Everything is closed. That's a staff coach. |
I did wonder given the day of the week, and it being the end of the season.
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Shocking news. Twitter reports coming in that death toll revised down to one |
Confirmed by Le Dauphine, quoting the Prefecture "16h30. Le bilan vient d'être révisé, toujours par la préfecture: un mort."
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You know it makes sense.
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| Everything is closed. That's a staff coach. |
Wondered if it might be so was curious that the Figaro specified they had been out for week - may have been an assumption.
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| Lizzard wrote: |
| Everything is closed. That's a staff coach. |
That was my first thought, although the reports seem to say it's after a week's holiday, I wasn't so sure. Poor kids...
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Poster: A snowHead
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Very sad.
After seeing the news here on Snowheads I went to the BBC website, but there was nothing posted until 15:43, the BBC seem to have been a bit slow in picking up on the story.
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
Very sad.
After seeing the news here on Snowheads I went to the BBC website, but there was nothing posted until 15:43, the BBC seem to have been a bit slow in picking up on the story. |
All BBC presenters, camera crews and both their journalists are on planes to Boston.
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It is a coach returning ski workers to the uk. Driver looks to be the fatality.
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| albinomountainbadger wrote: |
| Alastair Pink wrote: |
Very sad.
After seeing the news here on Snowheads I went to the BBC website, but there was nothing posted until 15:43, the BBC seem to have been a bit slow in picking up on the story. |
All BBC presenters, camera crews and both their journalists are on planes to Boston. |
or practising for tomorrows funeral
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Whoever they are, workers or tourists, thoughts are with them and their nearest and dearest. RIP. 
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boredsurfin, From that article "The bus is reported to have been transporting passengers back to the UK following a week-long break."
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"Reports: Coach went over a cliff after breaks failed"
So not only did the Daily Fail get the details about those affected being holidaymakers wrong (if Lizzard is correct), their spelling standards leave something to be desired as well...
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Thoughts with everyone involved
Having been up and down that road a few times, there are a couple of places I really wouldn't want to go over the edge, or even into one of the surrounding walls
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
boredsurfin, From that article "The bus is reported to have been transporting passengers back to the UK following a week-long break."
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"Reports: Coach went over a cliff after breaks failed"
So not only did the Daily Fail get the details about those affected being holidaymakers wrong (if Lizzard is correct), their spelling standards leave something to be desired as well... |
Bus never went over a cliff according to the French reports, it hit the cliff.
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Horrible news
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such a sad story to end the season on
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| Alastair Pink wrote: |
boredsurfin, From that article "The bus is reported to have been transporting passengers back to the UK following a week-long break."
and
"Reports: Coach went over a cliff after breaks failed"
So not only did the Daily Fail get the details about those affected being holidaymakers wrong (if Lizzard is correct), their spelling standards leave something to be desired as well... |
Edit: And as for the headline " ...as bus carrying children carers (my italics!) off Alps cliff 
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You know it makes sense.
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We know someone on that bus so very worried. Our youngest is also due to leave the resort today - just heard from her to let us know she's safe
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The Telegraph does at least correctly report that the bus hit the cliff rather than the Mail's sensationalist claim of going over it - if a bus went over a cliff at Alpe d'Huez there wouldn't be any survivors.
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dsoutar, hope all turns out okay...
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
| Shocking news. Twitter reports coming in that death toll revised down to one |
Twitter was certainly running ahead of the news agencies.
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| Hells Bells wrote: |
| Lizzard wrote: |
| Everything is closed. That's a staff coach. |
I did wonder given the day of the week, and it being the end of the season. |
? ? Alpe d'Huez is open until the 27th. Maybe she means closed at the end of the day ?
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British TO's normally finish early though. You don't find much past Easter in their brochures.
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Claude B, OK I understand. I should have read the rest of the thread......
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| dsoutar wrote: |
| We know someone on that bus so very worried. Our youngest is also due to leave the resort today - just heard from her to let us know she's safe |
What a relief. I hope the person you know is ok. Horrific accident.
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Yeah - most of the UK workers leaving this week at some point. The last lot of TO punters went home at the weekend so it's just been admin, cleaning up etc this week. She also knew the girl who died at the start of the season when she climbed under the covers into the swimming pool so it's been a season bookended by tragedy
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My first thought was a school trip. Very sad whoever was on the bus.
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