Thames Valley police say six men and two women have died and four people have been left with life-threatening injuries after an accident on the M1.
All of the people who were killed and the four taken to hospital were travelling in the minibus, one of whom is a five-year-old girl.
Two men have been charged with dangerous drving and one of them for being over the drink-drive limit following the fatal collision.
Eyewitness Brett Smith said he gave a little girl trapped in the bus his jacket to keep her warm.
He said: “A family has been destroyed. I held a little girl by her arms, trapped inside a vehicle, for a good hour or so with the emergency services and the fire service trying to help.
“I’m walked home with a blanket that the ambulance service provided me to stay warm because the little girl has got my jacket to keep herself safe.
“The fire and ambulances services did a really good job.”
The police are currently at the scene of the serious collision on the M1, near to Newport Pagnell.
Officers were called to a report of a three vehicle collision on the southbound carriageway between junctions 15 and 14, shortly before 3.15am this morning.
Ryszard Masierak, aged 31, of Barnards Close, Evesham, Worcestershire, was charged with eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving, four counts of causing serious injury by dangerous driving and eight counts of causing death by careless driving while over the prescribed limit.
He was remanded in custody to appear at High Wycombe Magistrates’ Court tomorrow (28/8).
David Wagstaff, aged 53, of Derwent Street, Stoke-on-Trent, was charged with eight counts of causing death by dangerous driving and four counts causing serious injury by dangerous driving.
He was bailed to appear at Milton Keynes Magistrates’ Court on Monday 11 September.
Chief Inspector Henry Parsons from the Joint Operations Unit for Roads Policing, said: "The scene facing the officers who attended was complex and the recovery operation which followed was challenging.
"Tragically eight people lost their lives, with four further people seriously injured, and it is our duty to establish the circumstances of what happened.
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