A SCHOOL secretary died today after suffering severe injuries when two coaches taking British children on half-term holiday skiing trips were involved in a crash with a lorry on a German motorway.

A SCHOOL secretary died today after suffering severe injuries when two coaches taking British children on half-term holiday skiing trips were involved in a crash with a lorry on a German motorway.

Jane Irving, 53, secretary at the private Norwich School in Norwich died in hospital in Germany following the crash near Cologne in the early hours of Saturday.

She was the third person to die as a result of the accident. Stuart Dines, 14, Woodbridge, and a coach driver were also killed.