PUISSEGUIN, France, Oct 23 (Reuters 路透社)—At least 41 people on a bus carrying elderly day-trippers（一日游旅客）were killed early on Friday when the bus hit a truck and caught fire, in France's worst road crash in more than 30 years. Two people, including a young boy, died in the truck. A total of eight people were injured.
The bus and the truck crashed near a bend near Puisseguin in the Gironde region, about 60 km (35 miles) east of Bordeaux.
The bus was carrying about 50 pensioners south to the Bearn region from their homes in the village of Petit Palais. The crash occurred just a few minutes after the pensioners had get on the bus. Among the dead were the driver of the truck and a three-year-old boy who was together with the driver, according to the local government’s office.
The driver of the bus was among the survivors, who were able to get out through the front door he opened, according to a source close to an inquiry that was under way within hours. The source said the truck apparently moved onto the wrong side of the road as it came around a bend.
A spokesman for the interior ministry(内政部) said that all the bus passengers were French and from the region. President Francois Hollande said he had been "plunged into sadness by the tragedy". Prime Minister Manuel Valls went to the scene.
It was the worst road accident in France since 53 people, mostly children, died in a bus crash in Burgundy in July 1982, according to the independent road safety organization Association Prevention Routiere. Stricter road regulation and lower speed limits followed, and traffic deaths in France have fallen steeply since. According to official statistics, more than 16,000 people were dying on the roads every year in the early 1970s. In recent years the annual death toll has dropped below 4,000.
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