19 children injured in South Bohemia bus crash

Nineteen children were injured, none of them seriously, in a bus crash near Písek in southern Bohemia on Thursday morning. The bus was taking a total of 48 children on a day-trip from a summer camp in the Strakonice area when the accident occurred. Police said the driver had failed to respond adequately to water on the road and was to blame for the vehicle ending up on its side.

Author: Ian Willoughby