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Crash team investigates coach tragedy

Crash investigators are at the scene of a coach crash in Staffordshire which killed one person and injured 70 others in Staffordshire.

The vehicle collided with a car, crashed through a wall and ended up in a garden in Alton, near Alton Towers theme park. The coach remains on a slope, at the bottom of the garden. Another vehicle is thought to be beneath it.

One woman was airlifted to Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham. Another man and woman were taken to the University Hospital of North Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent, with head injuries.

According to police, the man who died was 26 years old and from Poland.

Passengers on the coach were from Poland, Latvia, Lithuania, and South Africa and are thought to have been on there way to Peterborough after a trip to Alton Towers.

The vehicle involved in the crash was owned by Decker Bus, based in Whittlesey, near Peterborough, Cambridgeshire.

Ch Insp John Maddox, from Staffordshire Police, said officers were continuing to investigate the cause of the crash.

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