Bus and truck crash in Bordeaux region: 43 die.

Posted on October 23, 2015 by bill

Collision en Gironde : un enfant parmi les victimes, le bilan passe à 43 morts. A child among them.

EN DIRECT par Rédaction de France Info vendredi 23 octobre 2015 08:50.

L’autocar et le camion se sont percutés de plein foret dans un virage serré à hauteur de Puisseguin © REUTERS/Regis Duvignau. Bus and truck collide in the middle of a forest at a tight bend above the town of Puisseguin.

43 morts et quatre blessés graves dans une collision entre un camion et un bus à Puisseguin, en Gironde. C’est le plus grave accident de la route depuis 33 ans en France. “La France est en deuil”, a déclaré Manuel Valls sur place, accompagné de Bernard Cazeneuve et Alain Vidalies.

43 people have died and four are seriously injured in the crash in the Gironde. It is the worst French road accident in 33 years. “France is in mourning” declared PM Manuel Valls who is there with Bernard Cazeneuve and Alain Vidalies.

17h55 : Selon le département de la Gironde, aucun accident n’a été constaté ces cinq dernières années sur le virage concerné de Puisseguin.

According to the Gironde Dept, no accident was reported in the last five years on that bend near Puisseguin.

Information: SW France has vast pine and hardwood forests that, when harvested, are used as fuel for wood burning stoves that exist in almost all rural households. Most of the forestry roads are only one vehicle wide and need to be driven with extreme caution. 

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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