Europe 1 with AFP 4:44 p.m., September 16, 2021
Near Laval, a bus accident left 28 people injured on Thursday morning, including two serious, who were taken to hospital.
The bus was carrying 49 people, 48 children and an adult, who was the driver.
About a hundred firefighters were mobilized for this intervention.
An accident of a school bus transporting college students in Changé, in Mayenne, near Laval, Thursday morning 28 injured, including two serious, announced the prefecture of the department.
"The current report shows two middle school students in serious condition, transported to the Laval hospital and 26 minor injuries distributed in health establishments in the sector," said the prefecture of Mayenne in a press release.
On the sidelines of a trip to Yvré-l'Evêque, in Sarthe, Jean-Michel Blanquer, Minister of Education, specified that, "very fortunately, there is (vait) no vital prognosis involved" .
The still built-in coach
According to the prefecture, "21 children involved were taken care of in a municipal ward with psychological support which was also offered to families who went there". The bus was carrying 49 people, 48 children and an adult, who was the driver. The children are all secondary school students at the Jules Renard establishment in Laval. The "many victims" device (Novi) of the Orsec plan was activated by the prefect and the departmental operational center was set up in the prefecture.
A hundred firefighters were mobilized for this intervention as well as medical teams, security forces, municipal and departmental services and the departmental association of civil protection of Mayenne, according to the same source. An AFP videographer present at the scene around noon observed that the bus was embedded in a hedge after a bend.