Deadly California Bus Crash

At least eight dead and many injured in tour bus crash.

Monday, February 4, 2013

YUCAIPA, California (AP) — A tour bus collided with a car and pickup truck, killing at least eight people and injuring dozens of others Sunday night on a Southern California mountain highway, authorities said.

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Deadly California Bus Crash

A California Highway Patrol officer stands near the crash scene where at least eight people were killed and nearly two dozen were injured when a bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles on its way back from Big Bear Lake on Highway 38 north of Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Both sides of the highway remained closed two and a half hours after the crash and it was unclear when it would reopen. (AP Photo/The Sun, Rick Sforza)

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Authorities work the scene where at least eight people were killed and nearly two dozen were injured when a bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles on its way back from Big Bear Lake on Highway 38 north of Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Both sides of the highway remained closed two and a half hours after the crash and it was unclear when it would reopen. (AP Photo/The Sun, Rick Sforza)

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Deadly California Bus Crash

Emergency personnel assist victims at the scene of a bus crash near Forest Falls, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. A tour bus crashed with a pickup truck on a rural mountain highway in Southern California on Sunday night, killing multiple people and injuring dozens of others, a fire department spokesman said. The accident occurred around 6:30 p.m. near the town of Forest Falls, about 80 miles east of Los Angeles, San Bernardino County Fire Department spokesman Eric Sherwin said. (AP Photo/Riverside Press-Enterprise, Brian Rokos)

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Investigators work at the scene, early Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, of the accident where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured Sunday after a tour bus carrying Mexican tourists careened out of control while traveling down a mountain road, striking a car, flipping and plowing into a pickup truck, near Yucaipa, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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Investigators examine body bags of victims near the scene where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured after a tour bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles near Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

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Grisly Scene for Fire, EMS Crews at California Crash Over 30 Injured in Deadly California Bus Crash

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Authorities work the scene of an accident where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured after a tour bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles near Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)

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Victims of a fatal bus crash reach out to comfort each other in the wake of the crash where at least eight people were killed and nearly two dozen injured when a bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles on its way back from Big Bear Lake on Highway 38 north of Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Both sides of the highway remained closed two and a half hours after the crash and it was unclear when it would reopen. (AP Photo/The Sun, Rick Sforza)

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