Bus accident in Ain: “It’s quite inexplicable what happened”, according to the mayor of Lent

“It’s a shock and a tragedy,” breathes the mayor of Lent, Yves Cristin.

This Friday, November 4 in the morning, a terrible traffic accident involving a bus transporting minors occurred in this town of Ain.

The provisional report shows a minor and a young adult deceased.

Sixteen other people were injured, three of them seriously.

The bus “crossed the road.

He was going in the direction from Lyon to Bourg-en-Bresse, he lay down in the ditch and came across a tree,” describes the town councilor.

“Everyone is really, really saddened by what happened.

We didn’t think when we woke up this morning that we would have this type of difficulty to deal with,” he added.

According to Yves Cristin, the accident occurred on “a road which is rather accident-prone”.

“The prefect had arranged for us to have a radar at the end of the village to regulate speed.

It causes accidents because we have traffic that is too fast.

We have speeding on this road,” he says into the microphone of our journalist Antoine Sillières.

However, “it’s quite inexplicable what happened,” according to the mayor.

“There was a bit of fog, a wet road.

At the site of the accident, no major difficulties, there was a slight curve.

Regarding the causes of the accident, we do not understand what could have happened,” he describes.

The municipality of Lent indicated that it would provide support to the victims and facilitate their reception.

She announced that she would open the town's village hall in order to “welcome the people involved and offer them a place of care and shelter, in conjunction with the emergency services and the competent authorities”.