School coach crash: driver 'lost control while looking for sunglasses'

Video report by ITV News' Stacy Foster:

Police in France have suggested that the driver of a coach that crashed near the Swiss border while carrying British school children, fell asleep at the wheel.

Two children were seriously injured when the bus, carrying teenagers from Cheltenham Bournside School, came off the road on the A39 motorway at Lons-le-Saunier.

Ten students and one member of staff received ‘minor’ injuries. There were 48 people on board the coach which set off from the UK on Friday.

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Two men from North Wales have been caught up in a coach crash in France which injured 15 people. The men are drivers from coach company Express Motors in Caernarfon.

48 people were on board the coach with 44 of them teenagers believed to be from a school in Cheltenham.

The bus company who owns the coach says it is still trying to make contact with organisers.

The bus company whose coach has crashed in France says it is still trying to make contact with organisers.

There were two drivers and 48 passengers on board.

The children aged between 13 and 18 years old set off for Italy yesterday afternoon. They were from a school in England.

Pictures show multiple emergency vehicles and a helicopter at the scene of a bus crash in France.

It's understood the coach is from north Wales company, Express Motors.

The Foreign Office says it is working with relevant local authorities in France after a coach crash.

Most of the passengers on board a bus which crashed in France are ''aged 14 to 17" according to reports.

News agency AFP is reporting that the crash took place near Lons-le-Saunier, near the Swiss border.

It's understood the bus, believed to be carrying teenagers from Wales, ended up on its side in a ditch and that two helicopters were sent to the site.

A coach reportedly carrying teenagers has crashed in France injuring 13 passengers.

Three are believed to be seriously injured.

The bus crashed on its side on a motorway near Lons-le-Saunier, near Swiss border as it was travelling to Italy.

There were 48 people on board, most of whom were aged between 14 and 17.