One dead, many hurt in coach plunge

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Two others remain in hospital with serious injuries after the crash in Alton, Staffordshire, close to the Alton Towers theme park.

Twenty-four others were taken to hospital and dozens more were left with minor injuries after the crash which happened as traffic left the theme park.

Residents described hearing a crash like a thunder clap, before screams and shouts.

Margaret Grice, who lives in Station Road, near the crash scene, opened her door and found "12 or 15 young people standing there, crying and with blood running down them".

Murray MacGregor, spokesman for West Midlands Ambulance Service, said the coach driver, a man from Lincolnshire, was seriously injured.

He said the coach had come from Peterborough, carrying passengers from Lithuania, South Africa and Poland.

It is thought they were farm workers who had spent the day at Alton Towers.

The nationality of the dead man was not yet known. Two of the injured were airlifted to hospital.

A spokeswoman for University Hospital Birmingham NHS Trust said a 20-year-old woman was airlifted into Selly Oak Hospital where her condition was critical.