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The San Joaquin Valley, in which Coalinga is located, is a major agricultural region of California.The region had historically suffered from dust storms; the Great Bakersfield Dust Storm of 1977 occurred in a different part of the valley, and a series of smaller dust storms killed seven people in crashes on the same section of Interstate 5 in 1978. [1]
The day of the crash, Bus No. 1106 was one of just 15 of the district’s 72 daily-use buses without seat belts. All 15 were slated for replacement with newer versions within weeks.
The Yuba City bus disaster was the second-worst bus disaster in U.S. history, exceeded only by the 1963 train-bus collision in Chualar, California, which claimed the lives of 32 Mexican farmworkers. In May 1996, on the twentieth anniversary of the accident, a memorial built near the water at the Martinez Marina was dedicated to the victims.
The head-on collision was the deadliest incident involving drunk driving and the third-deadliest bus crash in U.S. history. Of the 67 people on the bus (counting the driver), there were 27 fatalities in the crash, the same number as the 1958 Prestonsburg bus disaster, and behind the 1976 Yuba City bus disaster (29) and 1963 Chualar bus crash (32).
The bus hit a tree and rolled over. Howard failed several sobriety tests and was arrested, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The Tuesday morning bus crash is still under investigation by police. On ...
A school bus crash occurring on September 21, 1989, in Alton, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley region, resulted in the deaths of 21 junior and senior high school students by drowning or causes related to being asphyxiated. A bottling truck collided with the school bus, causing the bus to enter a caliche pit filled with water. The driver of the ...
The families of Tusky Valley bus crash victims embrace during the first lap of the first Stand with the Band Memorial Walk and Run Sunday at Trojan Stadium.
A photo released by the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office showing DeAngelo, who joined the Exeter Police Department in 1973. Joseph James DeAngelo Jr. was born on November 8, 1945, in Bath, New York, to Kathleen "Kay" Louise DeGroat (June 30, 1923 – August 21, 2010) and Joseph James DeAngelo Sr. (January 19, 1920 – February 15, 1995), a sergeant in the United States Army.