Spanish tour bus roof sheared off after attempting to drive under low bridge
Most of the passengers were asleep when the accident happened
Twenty-eight people have been injured in northern France after a Spanish tour bus crashed into a low bridge causing the roof of the vehicle to be ripped off.
Four people are understood to have been seriously injured in the accident at La Madeleine, near Lille, according to Reuters.
Images from the scene on Sunday show the bus inside a mini-tunnel with the roof sheared off, lying on the motorway behind the vehicle.
The bus was travelling from Bilbao to Amerstam and the passengers, most of whom were from Bilbao, San Sebastian and Vitoria, were asleep at the time of the crash, the Daily Mail reports.
EuroWeekly reports that the passengers not being treated at hospital are awaiting transport back to Spain and the bus’s driver has been taken into custody.
Additional reporting by Reuters
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