Driver Maurice Wrightson, 63, deliberately drove his vehicle, carrying 51 British passengers, into the mountainside after he felt the brakes fail. He was the only one to die, an inquest heard EMMANUEL FOUDROT/REUTERSA coach driver died in an “inferno” after his vehicle’s brakes failed and he drove straight into boulders on a narrow mountain road to save his passengers, an inquest has been told. Maurice Wrightson, 63, from Ashington, Northumberland, was driving 51 British resort staff down the precarious D211 road from the French ski resort of Alpe d’Huez. After the crash, flames engulfed the coach, with passengers desperately trying to escape through the broken windows and one woman being set on fire. French investigators said that the driver had “undoubtedly prevented”…

Source: The Times November 23, 2017 00:03 UTC