1 killed, dozens injured in California bus crash
Source: AP-Excite
REDDING, Calif. (AP) — A tour bus that had already crashed into a restaurant earlier in the day overturned Sunday in Northern California, killing one person and injuring dozens more, five of them seriously, authorities said.
The bus traveling form Los Angeles to Pasco, Washington, crashed just off Interstate 5 at about 8:30 a.m. about 100 miles south of the Oregon border, California Highway Patrol Officer Jeff Borgen told the Redding Record-Searchlight ( http://bit.ly/1pd9UxW ).
Earlier in the same trip and about 50 miles to the south, the bus had struck a Denny's restaurant in Red Bluff, Borgen said. No one was injured in that crash.
A 33-year-old man was killed, Borgen said. His name has not been released because relatives had not been notified.
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Emergency personnel check a tour bus that had already crashed earlier in the day overturned just off Interstate 5 in Northern California, killing one person and sending dozens to hospitals near the Pollard Flat area in Redding, Calif., Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014. (AP Photo/The Record Searchlight, Alayna Shulman)
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but, my union often has articles in our magazine about how underpaid the drivers for these economy tour bus companies are, and that many of the drivers work way over-long hours, or at 2 or 3 jobs, trying to earn a living. Driver fatigue may well be the cause.
Sad and horrible for all involved. 
