Floral tributes and messages left at school of child who died in Somerset coach crash | Somerset

Flower tributes were excluded from a school attended by a child who died in a coach accident in Somperset on his way home from a trip to the zoo.

Twenty -one passenger, when the coach returned to the roof of the coach and on the way to Minehead Secondary School in the afternoon, he left a set in Exmoor, was taken to hospital with vehicles and a helicopter.

The driver of the coach carrying 60 to 70 people was in a stable situation, but in the hospital with injuries, the school roads operated by Koç company were suspended. It is understood that children are divided between the two coaches, which safely back him to the first person to leave the zoo back.

Beacon Education Multi-Academy Trust, a part of Minehead Secondary School, including six schools, community Wheddon Cross and Timberscombe after the accident is covered on Friday.

Keir Starmer paid tribute on social media. He sent it to X and said: “A heartbreaking update in a school bus accident in Somperset. There is not enough words to accept the death of a child.

Throughout the railing on the Townsend Road, a continuous flow of people outside the Minehead Secondary School leaves flowers.

Near Old Cleeve wrote preschool staff: “Our thoughts and prayers are going to everyone who is affected by this tragic event.”

Another said: “Thinking everyone in this heart and destructive time. Our community keeps you all tight and surrounds you with love.”

Rev Philip Butcher, who spoke outside the Minehead Secondary School, said: “There was absolutely numb, there is no word to define what happened yesterday. An absolute tragedy and still folding.

Peter Prior-Sankey, Director of Sideler Coaches, confirmed that the driver was in a stable state in the hospital, but with a series of injuries.

“We are in contact with his wife and family and we have provided continuous support,” he said.

The previous Sankey said that Minehead was decided not to carry out any school route and that discussions about other ways or contracts affected in the coming days would continue.

A statement made by the Exmoor Zoo said: “We cannot believe that fate is so cruel for a group of children who have been so beautiful, lively, well -behaved from Minehead Secondary School on the way home with coaches.

Avon and Somperset police said that an investigation will be carried out due to the incident and that he wanted witnesses to communicate with 101.