Redding, CA : One dead, dozens hurt as Pasco-bound bus crashes in northern California on Sunday, November 23, 2014
A tour bus that had already crashed into a restaurant earlier in the day overturned Sunday in Northern California, killing one person and injuring dozens more, six of them seriously, authorities said.
The bus traveling form Los Angeles to Pasco, Washington, crashed just off Interstate 5 at about 8:30 a.m. about 100 miles south of the Oregon border, the California Highway Patrol said in a news release.
Earlier in the same trip and about 50 miles to the south, the bus had struck a Denny's restaurant in Red Bluff, police said. No one was injured in that crash.
A 33-year-old man from the Fresno County-Tulare County area was killed. His name has not been released because relatives had not been notified.
Twenty-six others from the bus were taken to hospitals. Most had minor injuries and were treated and released.
Three people were in serious condition at the same hospital's Redding location, where most of the patients were taken.
Investigators said evidence at both crash sites show that driver fatigue may have been a factor. They did not say whether drugs or alcohol may have been involved.
No information has been released on why the bus continued on its trip after the initial crash.
The driver has been identified as 67-year-old Jose Victor Garcilazo Palencia, of Los Angeles.
The bus operator, Yellow Arrow LLC, is based in Othello, Washington. It has a current license and before Sunday had no reported accidents in the past two years, according to federal records.
The hospital was working with the Salvation Army and the Red Cross to assist patients who had been released, many of whom were staying at a hospitality house run by the medical center.
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