{"id":467,"date":"2013-04-17T14:58:29","date_gmt":"2013-04-17T10:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ankakh.am\/?p=467"},"modified":"2013-04-17T14:58:29","modified_gmt":"2013-04-17T10:58:29","slug":"british-driver-killed-and-dozens-of-tourists-injured-as-coach-careers-off-cliff-in-french-alps-and-explodes-in-fireball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/en\/?p=467","title":{"rendered":"British driver killed and dozens of tourists injured as coach careers off cliff in French Alps and explodes in fireball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/b1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-465\" alt=\"\u0561\u0575\u0580\u057e\u0561\u056e \u0561\u057e\u057f\u0578\u0562\u0578\u0582\u057d\" src=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/b1.jpg\" width=\"634\" height=\"286\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/b1.jpg 634w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/b1-300x135.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/b1-500x225.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 634px) 100vw, 634px\" \/><\/a>One Briton was killed and up to\u00a018 others injured when a coach exploded in a fireball after crashing in the French Alps yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 UK nationals were on their way home from resorts around Alpe d\u2019Huez when the coach veered off the road after suspected brake failure.<\/p>\n<p>It smashed into rocks shortly after 2pm before bursting into flames seconds later as passengers leapt to escape. The British driver was killed in the crash.<\/p>\n<p>A number of passengers escaped from the burning wreckage by jumping out of smashed windows, and at least four of the injured were in a serious condition, according to French authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Two helicopters were scrambled to the scene and airlifted the more seriously injured to hospital in Grenoble, while firemen battled to put out the flames.<\/p>\n<p>A local police spokesman said: \u2018There was apparently a problem with the coach\u2019s brakes. The driver seems to have lost control on a steep bend in the road and his vehicle crashed into rocks.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>He added it was a miracle so many had survived the crash, thought to have happened towards the bottom of a mountain.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One Briton was killed and up to\u00a018 others injured when a coach exploded in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,224,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-news","category-world","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=467"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive2.ankakh.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}