The driver of a French school bus involved in a deadly crash with a train has told investigators the level crossing she drove across was open.
"According to her, the barriers were raised," Marseille prosecutor Xavier Tarabeux told reporters on Saturday after a visit to the scene of the crash in which five children were killed.
The bus was carrying students aged 11 to 15 from the Christian Bourquin school in the village of Millas, near Perpignan in southern France.
It was the first time investigators had been able to speak with the 46-year-old driver, who was herself badly injured in Thursday's crash.
Tarabeux said, however, that an inspection of the scene showed that the barrier's hinge was in the closed position.
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