6 dead, 34 injured in Greyhound crash on California highway - Jul 2010
(CNN) -- Six people died and at least 34 were injured -- four of them critically -- in a crash involving a Greyhound bus and two other vehicles on a highway in Fresno, California, early Thursday, the California Highway Patrol said. The accident occurred about 2:15 a.m. (5:15 a.m. ET) on northbound California Highway 99, highway patrol spokesman Officer Kirk Arnold said.
[LINKHOTNESS] Emergency personnel work at the scene of a bus crash Thursday in Fresno, California.
The bus apparently struck an overturned SUV that was in the highway's fast lane, then possibly struck a second vehicle before traveling down an embankment and slamming into a large eucalyptus tree, Arnold said. "We're still trying to piece everything together," he told reporters. Authorities believe at least one of the people who died was a person in the overturned SUV
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