French Crash Kills 11 British Tourists
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AUXERRE, France — A British double-decker tourist bus taking vacationers home from Spanish beaches flipped Sunday on a French highway, killing 11 Britons and injuring 61, police said.
The bus burst a tire on the main north-south highway, swerved into a ditch, tumbled onto its side and slid more than 100 yards before coming to rest in a wheat field.
The British Foreign Office said the bus was carrying 69 passengers, six guides and the driver.
The British television network Sky TV reported that many victims were children. Most of the tourists were from the Midlands or Liverpool, police said.
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