SOLEDAD, Calif. (AP) — Authorities say the America driver of a bus carrying French tourists was among the five people killed when the vehicle overturned on a highway overpass in central California.
California Highway Patrol spokesman Brian Wiest said Wednesday that the driver was one of at least three people ejected from the bus who fell 60 to 70 feet to the street below. The patrol previously said the driver survived.
Three victims died at the scene Tuesday along U.S. 101 in Soledad, about 100 miles southeast of San Francisco. Two were pronounced dead at hospitals.
The patrol has not released any victims' names. A total of 36 people were on board, including 34 French tourists, their Canadian tour guide and the driver.
SOLEDAD, Calif. (AP) — Police reports show that the driver of a tour bus that crashed in central California, killing himself and four others, struck a woman in a Las Vegas crosswalk a little more than three years ago.
The Monterey County Coroner's office on Wednesday identified the bus driver as 69-year-old John Egnew of Corona.
Cmdr. Scott Ragan says Egnew died of head and neck injuries after he was thrown from the bus, which overturned Tuesday on a freeway overpass in Soledad.
In the 2005 accident, Egnew admitted not seeing 71-year-old Joan Smith of Delton, Mich., before the bus he was driving hit her.
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