{"id":803885,"date":"2026-10-15T23:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803885\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T23:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T23:36:15","slug":"two-airlifted-to-hospital-after-bus-collides-with-train-stopped-on-french-side-of-channel-tunnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803885\/","title":{"rendered":"Two airlifted to hospital after bus collides with train stopped on French side of Channel Tunnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Incident seems to be contained to one platformpublished at 22:23 BST<\/p>\n

22:23 BST<\/p>\n

\"\"Evan Davis
Radio 4 PM Presenter<\/p>\n

Around the time of the incident, I happened to be coming through the tunnel from Folkestone to Calais. <\/p>\n

I got an alert from Eurotunnel while we were on the train saying: “Service disruption due to an ongoing incident.” We were directed off the train as normal and ushered off via the normal route.<\/p>\n

I came through and there were some very clear blue lights concentrated on one of the platforms – presumably a freight platform – in this enormous terminal.<\/p>\n

As I understand, this is how the service for lorry drivers works: lorries are parked on these big open vehicles and the drivers are taken by minibus to a safer closed carriage for the journey. <\/p>\n

It seems to be one of these minibuses that collided with a freight vehicle on a platform.<\/p>\n

I’m currently just outside the terminal, where I’m seeing fewer blue lights inside the terminal than there were earlier. I’m also seeing quite a lot of blue light vehicles leaving.<\/p>\n

It all seems to have been quite contained on one platform.<\/p>\n

There were plenty of cars queueing up at check-in when I drove past just now, and I saw some cars going through check-in, so despite the collision they weren’t being held. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Incident seems to be contained to one platformpublished at 22:23 BST 22:23 BST Evan DavisRadio 4 PM Presenter…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-803885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803885\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}