Beaune coach crash

When

31 Jul 1982

Kind

Road accident

Coordinates

46.95° N, 4.83° E

Description

1982 traffic collision in France

Deaths

53

1982 traffic collision in France

The Beaune coach crash occurred on 31 July 1982 on the French A6 motorway near Beaune, in the Côte-d’Or département of east-central France. It is the second deadliest road traffic collision in France's history after the 2016 Nice truck attack. 53 people died, including 46 children. Most of the victims were on board a coach that caught fire as a result of the collision.

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• Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beaune coach crash: In Beaune, France, 53 persons, 46 of them children, die in a highway accident (France's worst)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Beim Busunfall von Beaune kommen in Frankreich 53 Menschen ums Leben, darunter 44 Kinder”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
• Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “catastrophe routière de Beaune, le plus grave accident de la route en France (53 morts) sur l’A6”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page