Car crash on Trung Luong highway kills seven, including one French

Friday, April 18, 2014

At least seven people died after a coach carrying 13 passengers, including two French, crashed into a tank truck on Trung Luong Expressway in the southern province of Tien Giang this morning.

At around 9.30am, a 30-seat bus of private transportation firm Thao Chau, carrying 13 people from Ben Tre to Ho Chi Minh City, suddenly crashed into a tank truck which was watering trees on the road. The crash completely demolished the coach, killing five passengers on the spot, including a French man and a boy of about 10 years. All remaining passengers were injured. Later, two more passengers died at the hospital.

Hearing the horrible sound from the crash, which took place in the Chau Thanh District of Tien Giang, local people rushed to the scene. They used hoes and crowbars to break the coach doors and debris to rescue the victims. "The scene was horrible, blood was everywhere," said one local man.

It took 30 minutes to extract all of victims from the wreck.

Authorities are investigating the accident.

The last images of the passengers on the coach before the crash:

A camera on the coach captured the last photos of 13 passengers before the tragic accident this morning.

The baby boy sleeping on the woman's thigh and the foreign passenger sitting two rows behind are two of the three people who died on the spot.

Two foreigners on the bus were determined to be French. The 64 -year-old man died and the 50-year-old woman was seriously injured. Just prior to the accident, the woman was sitting on the right of the man, looking out of the window.