Car Kills 4 in Dutch School Cycling Group, 19-Year-Old Detained
Updated
Updated · The Associated Press · Jun 11
Car Kills 4 in Dutch School Cycling Group, 19-Year-Old Detained
3 articles · Updated · The Associated Press · Jun 11
Summary
Four people — three children and one adult — died after a car hit a school cycling group on a camping trip Thursday near Vogelwaarde in the southern Netherlands.
One injured child died later at a Rotterdam hospital, after two children and the adult were killed at the scene; four other children were seriously hurt and taken to hospitals in the Netherlands and Belgium.
The victims were part of a group of 14 elementary schoolchildren and two chaperones from Axel, traveling on a provincial road between farm fields about 200 kilometers south of Amsterdam.
Police detained a 19-year-old man and are investigating his involvement, but did not say whether he was driving; the cause of the crash remains under investigation.
The collision was unusual in the Netherlands, where cycling is central to daily life and most roads have dedicated bike lanes.