Motorcoach carrying Catholic Polish pilgrims crashes near La Salette Shrine in France

Polish pilgrimage bus accident near La Salette Shrine
July 22, 2007

This past weekend a motorcoach carrying about 50 Catholic Polish pilgrims crashed near the Shrine of Our Lady of La Salette in the French Alps. It has received news coverage around the world and both the French and Polish presidents have flown to the site. To learn more visit any of these website articles: *
* Forbes http://www.forbes.com/business/feeds/afx/2007/07/22/afx3938905.html
* Poland News: http://www.poland.pl/news/article,Poland_mourns_victims_of_fatal_crash_in_France,id,286489.htm
* Austalia: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22122794-663,00.html
* World news: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20070723.wpilgrims0723/BNStory/International/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20070723.wpilgrims0723

P.S. The beginning of the Forbes story is listed below

GRENOBLE, France (Thomson Financial) - Twenty-six people were killed Sunday when a coach carrying Polish pilgrims skidded out of control and into a ravine in the French Alps, emergency services said.

Twenty-four people were injured, 14 of them seriously.

The coach, with 48 passengers and two drivers on board, was going down a steep and winding road between Gap (nyse: GPS - news - people ) and Grenoble when it had problems with its brakes at around 9:30 am (0730 GMT) near the town of Vizille, officials said. The party, mostly elderly and from the Szczecin region of northeast Poland, was returning from the Roman Catholic shrine of Notre Dame de la Salette, where the Virgin Mary is believed to have appeared to two children in 1846.