Car ploughs through group of 12 children on bike ride through French holiday hotspot leaving seven seriously injured as witnesses describe ‘terrible images’
A car crashed into a group of cycling children France Wednesday, seriously injuring three of them, local officials said.
The group of 12 children were riding bicycles from a recreation center to a park mid-morning when the car hit them at a roundabout in the west coast city of La Rochelle, local official Emmanuel Cayron said.
One had to be transported to the city of Poitiers, further inland, for treatment, while two others were classified as an “extreme emergency”, he said. Three others were also injured.
The fire brigade reported an accident in which three people were seriously injured.
Cayron said an investigation had been opened to determine the circumstances of the accident.
According to the mayor’s office, the children were accompanied by two activity leaders and traveled regularly by bicycle.
