A British woman was killed and 21 other people injured on Saturday when a bus taking British tourists to an Austrian ski resort lost control and tipped over on a snow-covered highway in western Germany, police said. The bus, carrying 34 passengers, two drivers and a tour guide, skidded on the snow before tipping and sliding on its side for 80 metres, according to eyewitnesses cited by the police. The 57-year old tour guide was thrown from the coach into the oncoming lane and died at the site of the accident, near Gruenstadt in the western state of Rhineland-Palatinate. Another 21 passengers were injured, 7 of them severely, police said. The bus was driving holidaymakers to Zillerthal in Austria from a location near London and was not equipped with winter tyres, police said. All those travelling on the bus were British.
