CHP: Ten dead after FedEx truck, charter bus collide in fiery crash; I-5 closed near Orland
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Source: Redding Record-Searchlight
Nine people are dead after a semi careened into and set aflame a tour bus carrying high school students to visit a prospective university this evening.
The crash, on Interstate 5 near Orland, injured up to 50 people and led to the closure of all lanes of Interstate 5 lanes near Orland this evening, said Tracy Hoover, an officer with the California Highway Patrol in Willows.
Authorities called out a number of ambulances to the crash, about a mile north of Highway 32 and Interstate 5 after it was reported at 5:41 p.m.
Hoover said the semi, a Fed Ex truck, was driving southbound when it crossed into oncoming traffic and hit the bus, which was carrying 46 people, mostly Los Angeles area high school students, to visit California State University, Humboldt.
Read more: http://www.redding.com/news/2014/apr/10/50-hurt-after-semi-tour-bus-collide-i-5-tehama-cou/
The AP, Eureka Times-Standard, Los Angeles Times, and San Francisco Chronicle also have reports.
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Vibes to the survivors and loved ones.
