The Guardian :

Three British tourists including a child have been killed after a 4×4 crashed while crossing a bridge in Iceland.

Four other people, including two children, were critically injured during the incident, which occurred at about 9.30am on Thursday, when the vehicle drove through a barrier on the one-lane bridge at Skeiðarársandur in the south of the country, Icelandic police said. The car landed on a riverbank.

Adolf Erlingsson, a tour guide who was among the first on the scene, said: “It was horrible. The car seemed to have hit the ground many metres from where it stopped. We struggled getting everyone out.”

Police said it remained unclear what caused the driver to lose control of the vehicle.

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