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One person has been killed and 51 injured - two seriously - after a coach and Land Rover collided.
The Land Rover driver was declared dead at the scene and the coach driver was seriously injured in the accident on the A286 near Brook, Surrey.
A further 49 people on the coach were taken to either Frimley Park Hospital or the Royal Surrey County Hospital at Guildford with a range of minor injuries and shock.A passenger in the Land Rover was also seriously injured in Tuesday evening's accident.
The coach was returning to Chichester from London and was carrying people aged from eight to their mid-70s.
A "handful" of children were believed to have suffered superficial injuries.
A spokeswoman for the Royal Surrey County Hospital confirmed it had received 34 casualties. Of those, four were described as trauma cases and the other 30 had minor injuries. Two of the seriously injured were undergoing surgery. A spokeswoman for Surrey Police said the road was expected to remain closed for several hours while police investigated the accident. One report claimed the coach party were Jehovah Witnesses returning from a conference in Mill Hill, north London, to Bognor Regis and Chichester. |