Czech coach -accident

A Czech coach traveling through Austria plunged into a ravine Sunday morning killing four passengers and injuring 45, according to the APA news agency. Police said the coach driver told them a car had cut in front of him on a main road near the town of Schrems making him swerve. The coach then hit a tree before careening into a five-metre (16 foot) deep ravine and landing upside down. The injured passengers were hospitalised in the region.

According to police statistics ten Czechs were killed in car accidents over the weekend - the worst figure since the introduction of a new road legislation intended to curb the number of deaths on the road.