Sunday, May 2, 2010

Student killed while sticking head out of roof

By The Associated Press

12:10ET 30-04-10

OSLO, Norway — Police say a French student on a school trip to Norway was killed when he stuck his head out of a roof hatch and slammed into a highway overpass.

Police spokesman Tom Midthaug says the bus was moving about 45 miles per hour (70 kph) when the accident took place Friday afternoon.

He says the 15-year-old boy, whose name was not released, was flown by helicopter from the site of the accident, about 50 miles (80 kilometres) north of Oslo, to a hospital in the Norwegian capital, where he was pronounced dead.

Midthaug says it’s not clear why the boy opened the emergency hatch. The double-decker bus was carrying about 60 French and Norwegian students.

From: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2010/04/30/13777611-ap.html

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