Europe's worst coach accidents in past 10 years
That number would surpass the last major European bus accident, which occurred in January in Italy and killed 16 people.
2017
January 21, ITALY: A Hungarian coach carrying 56 people bursts into flames after crashing on a highway near the northern city of Verona. Sixteen people die, mostly teenagers returning from a ski trip to France.
2015
October 23, FRANCE: At least 43 people are killed when a coach carrying members of a pensioner’s club collides with a lorry and bursts into flames near Puisseguin in southwest France, in the country’s worst road accident in three decades.
2014
July 22, TURKEY: A tanker truck carrying liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) overturns and explodes on a highway in southeast Turkey, killing 26 people.
January 23, TURKEY: Twenty-one people are killed when a bus overturns on icy roads in central Turkey in the dead of night.
2012
March 13, SWITZERLAND: Twenty-eight people, including 22 children, die in a crash in Sierre, southern Switzerland, as they return to Belgium from a skiing holiday.
2011
December 21, TURKEY: Twenty-five people, mainly students, are killed when a truck loaded with bricks collides with a bus near Salat, a village in the southeastern Diyarbakir province.
2010
October 12, UKRAINE: Forty-five people are killed when a bus packed with rush-hour commuters crashes into a train at a level crossing near the village of Marhanets in central Ukraine.
2009
July 24, RUSSIA: A collision between a fuel truck and a bus on the Rostov-Krasnodar motorway in southwestern Russia leaves 25 people dead.
March 25, RUSSIA: At least 25 people are killed when a bus and a truck collide in the central Vladimir region.
2008
November 4, GERMANY: Twenty people, mainly senior citizens, perished when a bus bursts into flames on a motorway near the northern city of Hanover. The blaze is reportedly sparked by someone smoking in the toilet.
2007
July 22, FRANCE: Twenty-six people are killed when a coach carrying Polish pilgrims skids out of control and plunges into a ravine near the Alpine town of Vizille.