• 24
  • July
    2010

A bus crash earlier this past week killed six people and injured nine other in California's Central Valley. The Greyhound bus was traveling from Los Angeles to Sacramento, carrying 31 passengers on a red eye trek in Thursday's early hours.

The fatal accident occurred around 2:00 a.m. when the bus driver struck an SUV that had overturned in the road ahead, blocking traffic. The bus slid into the concrete center divider and hit another vehicle before launching off the right side of the road, falling 15 feet before smashing into a tree located near an off-ramp, the front end smashed to smithereens.

California highway patrol is still investigating the fatal accident and are unsure how the SUV came to be flipped over in the middle of the road to begin with. All three occupants of the vehicle were killed in the accident.

Thus far, authorities have found no sign of alcohol or driver impairment. 

Of those injured in the crash, one Greyhound passenger remains in critical condition and several suffered severe injuries, such as crushed bones and collapsed lungs. This is the first California Greyhound bus accident in several years with any fatalities, though Greyhound buses have been involved in 14 accidents over the past two-and-a-half years.

Across the country, Greyhound buses have been involved in more than 120 accidents over the past 24 months.

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