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A coach carrying children from a school in the West Midlands to France on a school trip was involved in a road traffic accident last week.

The coach was taking children from Pool Hayes School in Willenhall to Chatel in the French Alps.

It is thought that the coach crashed after hitting a barrier.

No-one was seriously injured, but paramedics treated some children at the scene of the accident.

The coach was travelling on a motorway south of Champagne.

The coach which crashed was carrying 40 children aged between 12 and 15 and four staff, taking them on a French language trip to the Alps.

Ninety pupils were travelling overnight on two coaches to the ski resort of Chatel.

The coach company is STS School Travel Service Limited.

Specialist accident and injuries abroad solicitor Clive Garner said:

"I am extremely relieved that this accident has led to only minor injuries, and whilst more information about the crash has yet to be released I hope that there will be increased awareness of safety issues when travelling by coach abroad."

"As a result of the high number of people we have represented over the past few years who have been injured in foreign coach crashes, we have been making increasingly urgent calls for improved safety checks and more rigorous measures to be put in place to minimise the number of serious injuries and fatalities we were seeing."

Specialist road traffic accident solicitor Jonathan Betts acted for the family of one person who died and four people who were seriously injured in a coach crash in Austria in July 2004.

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