4 dead, including 3 children, when car hits school camp group in the Netherlands
AP News • • world
Key Points:
- A car struck a group of cyclists on a school camping trip in the rural southern Netherlands, killing three children and an adult.
- Police detained a 19-year-old man and are investigating his involvement, but it is unclear if he was the driver.
- Four children were seriously injured and hospitalized in the Netherlands and Belgium; one of them later died in a Rotterdam hospital.
- The victims were part of a group of 14 schoolchildren and two chaperones from an elementary school in Axel.
- The incident occurred on a provincial road near Vogelwaarde, and such multi-cyclist accidents are rare in the Netherlands due to widespread cycling infrastructure.