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04/09/2007
Driver Arrested Over Coach Crash
Police are to question the driver of a coach, which overturned on the M1 in Buckinghamshire on Monday, on suspicion of drink driving.
Thirty people were injured in the crash, which happened around 4pm on Monday, and six, including the driver, were seriously injured.
It is believed that the coach, a single-decker National Express vehicle, clipped a kerb before hitting a lamp-post and toppling over onto the driver's side as it entered Newport Pagnell services.
The driver had to be cut free from the wreckage. He was breath-tested at the scene and was later arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and dangerous driving.
Thirty-three people were onboard the coach, which had left Birmingham at 2pm heading for both Stansted and Luton Airport.
(KMcA/SP)
Thirty people were injured in the crash, which happened around 4pm on Monday, and six, including the driver, were seriously injured.
It is believed that the coach, a single-decker National Express vehicle, clipped a kerb before hitting a lamp-post and toppling over onto the driver's side as it entered Newport Pagnell services.
The driver had to be cut free from the wreckage. He was breath-tested at the scene and was later arrested on suspicion of drink-driving and dangerous driving.
Thirty-three people were onboard the coach, which had left Birmingham at 2pm heading for both Stansted and Luton Airport.
(KMcA/SP)
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