Driver arrested after two die in UK coach crash
Source: Reuters
(Updates with driver arrested, hospital comment) LONDON, Jan 4 (Reuters) - The driver of a coach that overturned on a motorway slip road near London's Heathrow airport, killing two people, has been arrested on suspicion of causing death by dangerous driving, police said on Thursday. The double-decker coach, with 67 passengers and two drivers on board, crashed late on Wednesday as it left the M4 motorway to join the M25 ring road round the British capital. A man and a woman were killed and more than 60 people taken to hospital, nine in critical condition, police said. The driver, a man in his 40s, was being questioned at a nearby police station. The cause of the crash was unknown. Doctors at one hospital said some passengers had been dragged along the ground and had limbs torn off when the coach tipped over. "We've had spinal injuries, we've had major head injuries, we've had limb trauma," surgeon David Houlihan-Burne told reporters. "These patients were clearly thrown or dragged along grass or mud..." The operator, National Express, said the coach was travelling from London to Aberdeen in Scotland via Heathrow.
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