A major emergency response was deployed: four aircraft, 50 gendarmes, 102 firefighters aboard 58 vehicles and eight mobile emergency and resuscitation units. The prosecutor's office announced that 49 people were on board, including about fifteen schoolchildren. The lives of two injured people remain in danger.
Two people, a 7-year-old girl and an 18-year-old young man, died Friday morning in a serious coach accident in the Lent area, in the Ain.
The prosecutor's office, immediately dispatched to the scene, opened a flagrante delicto investigation on charges of road homicide and aggravated road injuries, entrusted to the Lyon gendarmerie research section.
Given the seriousness of the accident, the prefect of Ain activated the departmental operations center.
The bus driver, who was hospitalized, was placed in police custody, the prosecutor said.
The tragedy occurred around 7:30 a.m. on Friday, November 6, on departmental road D22, about ten kilometers south of Bourg-en-Bresse.