Belgium bus crash: 13-year-old with fractured skull is released from intensive care
One of the coach's drivers, James 'Geordie' Chance, was killed in the crash
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Your support makes all the difference.A 13-year-old boy who suffered a fractured skull in a coach crash in Belgium has been released from intensive care.
The boy, a pupil at Brentwood School in Brentwood, Essex, had a small brain bleed as a result of the crash. Another pupil, a 12-year-old, is being treated for leg injuries at a Bruges hospital.
One other pupil and two teachers have received care in hospital, and one of the coach's drivers, James 'Geordie' Chance from Northern Ireland, was killed.
A second driver, Stephen Cardwell, is in a stable condition in hospital.
The coach, which was carrying 34 children on a school trip, overturned on a motorway near Middelkirke, West Flanders on Sunday morning. Eyewitnesses say it crashed into a bridge pillar, and pictures from the scene show the front of the bus was completely destroyed.
Despite the severity of the fatal crash, Ian Davies, the school's headteacher, told the BBC that all the children managed to walk away from the accident.
The Foreign Office is working with Belgian authorities to try and find out what happened to cause the crash. According to the Romford Recorder, all the children not in hospital returned to the school by coach on Sunday evening.
A spokesman from Richmond Coaches, the company that ran the coach involved, called the incident a "tragedy", and added they were fully co-operating with the authorities.
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