Bus Crash Los Angeles: one person killed and 32 injured in Hacienda Heights

At least one person was killed and dozens were wounded after a tour bus collided with a broken SUV in Los Angeles.

The police were called to the scene in Hacienda Heights shortly after 5 p.m. to find a sport in flames and a bus with considerable front-end damage and a smashed windshield.

Rescue workers could not save the driver of the Nissan Pathfinder SUV, who had become trapped in the vehicle. According to the local law enforcement authorities, two people who took the bus were critically injured, while another 30 were taken to the hospital. Another 31 passengers on board the bus, which had reported to Koreatown after a casino trip in the Coachella Valley, were intact.

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Preliminary investigations indicate that the SUV had broken off on the street when the tour bus collided into the back of the vehicle, which led to it lying on the highway before hit the guardrail on the other side of the street.

A passenger on the bus, Joe Runnel, told KTLA TV That people in the moments after the crash, which closed two lanes of the State Route 60 for several hours to begged mercy.

“I was thrown about three or four places from the back seat of the bus to the ground,” said Runnel. “Glass was on me … there was a lot of bruks.”

An eyewitness that drove on State Route 60 at the time of the crash said that the situation developed so quickly that many of those behind the bus had problems stopping.

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“It happened so quickly … lots of chaos and then only red lights,” said the eyewitness to local media. “It will be very [catastrophic]Especially because it is Mother's Day … it is very sad that it had to start. “

Officials said the bus was led from the Indio area of ​​the desert near Palm Springs to the Koreatown district in Los Angeles. The police originally said that the bus was coming from Morongo. The highway was reopened until late in the morning.

The driver of the Nissan still has to be named and the cause of the cause has not yet been completed.

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