Motorway coach crash injures 30

LONDON, Sept 3 (Reuters) Thirty people were hurt, six of them seriously, when a National Express coach overturned at Newport Pagnell service station as it was leaving the M1 motorway today police said.

National Express said the coach was its 777 service travelling from Birmingham to Stansted Airport with 33 passengers on board.

Television pictures showed the coach on its side at the entrance to the service station.

Thames Valley Police said the coach had clipped a kerb and rolled onto its side at around 4 pm (local time).

The injured have been taken to hospitals in Milton Keynes, Northampton and Oxford.

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