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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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Two Welsh men caught up in French coach crash

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 Express Motors coach crashed on a motorway near Lons-le-Saunier. Credit: ITV Wales

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

Express Motors is in the process of doing everything they can to contact their drivers and designated tour leaders. When they have made contact they will be doing everything they can to help.

Once contact is made they will do everything they can do to help accident teams with their investigations and inquiries.

– Express Motors

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