At least 1 dead, 32 injured after tour bus crash near Los Angeles, authorities say

At slightest 1 idiosyncratic was killed and 32 others were injured, including 2 critically, aft a circuit autobus and a athletics inferior conveyance crashed connected a Southern California freeway, authorities said.

The incidental occurred conscionable aft 5 a.m. section clip connected May 11 connected State Route 60 adjacent Hacienda Heights, a suburban assemblage astir 22 miles eastbound of downtown Los Angeles, the California Highway Patrol said successful a quality release. The fiery collision progressive a circuit autobus and a Nissan SUV.

When California Highway Patrol officers and Los Angeles County Fire Department unit arrived astatine the scene, authorities discovered the SUV "fully engulfed" successful flames with the operator trapped inside. The occurrence did not dispersed to the bus.

The driver, whose individuality is being withheld pending notification of adjacent of kin, was the lone occupant of the SUV, authorities said. The region occurrence section pronounced the operator dormant astatine the scene.

Thirty-two people, including 2 radical who were successful captious condition, were transported to section hospitals, the region occurrence section and California Highway Patrol announced. Of those injured, 26 radical sustained insignificant injuries, according to the county occurrence department.

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Crash nether investigation

The preliminary probe suggests that the SUV became disabled for chartless reasons and blocked a lane, according to the California Highway Patrol. The circuit autobus past collided with the rear of the SUV and caused the autobus to veer to the close crossed each lanes earlier colliding with a guardrail connected the close enarthrosis of State Route 60.

Videos shared by California Highway Patrol showed the autobus leaning against the enarthrosis of the freeway with important damage, including a shattered windshield astatine the beforehand of the bus.

Some parts of the freeway were closed for hours owed to the investigation. The country was aboriginal reopened astatine astir 10:30 a.m., according to the California Highway Patrol successful the Santa Fe Springs area.

The California Highway Patrol noted that intoxicant and drugs did not look to beryllium a origin successful the crash. The incidental remains nether investigation.

This nonfiction primitively appeared connected USA TODAY: Los Angeles country circuit autobus clang leaves 1 dormant and 32 others injured