On Friday, an eighty-seven-year-old driver crashed his car into a group of students who were on a school trip in the Swiss village of Sedrun. An adult companion was killed and three children were injured, police in the canton of Graubünden said on Saturday. TASR informs about it according to the report of the DPA agency.
- An eighty-seven-year-old driver hit a group of schoolchildren on a trip.
- An adult companion was killed in the collision and three children were injured.
- According to the investigation, the driver switched the gas pedal for the brake pedal.
- Two thirteen-year-old girls suffered serious injuries and were airlifted.
- The boy had only minor injuries and it was not necessary to hospitalize him.
Two 13-year-old girls and one boy were injured in the accident. according to the police report. The investigation suggests that the driver mistakenly mistook the gas pedal for the brake pedal. Two girls were airlifted to hospital with moderate to severe injuries. The Swiss daily Blick, citing the statement of a paramedic, said that one of them suffered an open leg fracture.
The boy suffered minor injuries that did not require hospitalizationthe police clarified. The police spokeswoman specified that the students came from Switzerland and went on a school trip to the tourist center in Sedrun, which is located at an altitude of around 1400 meters.
