FRANCE – At least 42 people, most of them elderly, were killed when a coach collided with a lorry and caught fire in southwest France on Friday (Oct 23) in the country’s worst road accident for three decades, officials said. Many of the victims were thought to have died in the fire, while the driver of the lorry was also killed, according to fire officials and local authorities in the department of Gironde. The two drivers were killed, while the rest of the victims were passengers on the coach, officials said. Images shown on French television showed the coach as a charred shell that had been entirely burned…[+]