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1957 Saint-Paul bus accident
The 1957 Saint-Paul bus accident took place on Sunday, 10 November 1957, on a meandering road overpassing downtown Saint-Paul, one of the sub-prefectures of the island of Réunion. Caused by a rupture in the brakes of a bus on an incline, it caused 27 deaths and left a lasting mark on the collective memory of this French Indian Ocean ''département''.
==Events==
The accident occurred at 7:30 am (local time) on Sunday, 10 November 1957, a sunny morning. A bus belonging to the transport authority, chartered by diocesan social workers of Father Favron, was transporting parishioners to a construction site in Sainte-Anne, a neighbourhood of Saint-Benoît. The brakes let go at one of the sinuous curves of the winding road that passed over the centre of Saint-Paul, in the western part of the island. The vehicle involved was in second place in the convoy that was supposed to travel to Sainte-Anne, and the accident took place just a few moments after its departure from the district known as Le Guillaume, where all the victims lived except for two, among whom was the driver, a native of Le Port.〔Brice Magné, "50 ans après la tragédie des rampes de Saint-Paul", ''Journal de l'île de La Réunion'', 8 November 2007.〕
The bus fell 25 metres before crashing at the foot of a cliff. There was at least one witness, M. Louisin, an employee of the mayor's office who was walking on the rue de la Caverne when he saw the bus plunge through the air, and who remained paralysed for a long moment before regaining his senses. The roof became detached and crashed on top of the passengers, who may have reflexively tried to jump out of the bus during its fall in the hope of escaping the catastrophe, "a spectacular pirouette" that finished "with a horrific clatter", as the ''Journal de l'île de La Réunion'' observed on 12 November. Indeed, the sound of the accident could be heard hundreds of metres all around.〔
According to different witnesses, first aid was quickly set up around the crash site, where rescuers and bystanders mixed with passengers from the first bus in the convoy, which stopped. On the ground, below, above and in the wreckage, mutilated, crushed and bleeding bodies were everywhere. Human remains were found over ten metres around. A woman's severed head hung from a tree.〔
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