The Telegraph
Brake failure was almost certainly what caused a coach full of young Britons to crash in the French Alps, the prosecutor investigating the terrifying accident said on Wednesday.
The coach’s British driver was left dead and three passengers seriously injured on Tuesday when the coach crashed on a bend near the end of a steep descent from the ski resort of Alpe-d’Huez, where some of the passengers had just finished working the winter season.
“It is very probably an issue with the brakes. Now the question is why and the investigation is likely to take a long time,” Grenoble prosecutor Jean-Yves Coquillat told AFP. According to passenger accounts, the driver had shouted out that the brakes were not working as the coach hurtled towards the last of a series of 21 treacherous hairpin bends that regularly feature in the Tour de France cycling race.
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