Two British children died in separate road accidents in France which also left nine people seriously injured, French police said this evening.
In one accident in northern France, a minivan carrying six people left the road for unknown reasons and fell upside down into a ditch.
A child died while the parents and three other children were seriously injured and taken to hospital. No information was available on where they were from.
In the other accident late Friday which killed a 10-year-old child, a British family from Chesterfield was traveling from northwestern France to Brittany when their car spun out of control while passing a truck.
It slid into a ditch in the middle of the four-lane highway and overturned several times.
The driver, a passenger traveling in the front seat, a 16-year-old adolescent and an eight-year-old child were all injured, police said.
AFP