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

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 from a school in Cheltenham.

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Most of bus crash passengers 'aged 14 to 17'

The crash is believed to have happened near Lons-le-Saunier in eastern France Credit: Google maps

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.

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