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LOS ANGELES – A bus that crashed into a big-rig whose driver fell asleep during a freeway closure last year, killing 13 people, had no advance warning because state workers didn’t properly plan for the closure, federal officials said Tuesday.
California Highway Patrol officers briefly stopped traffic on Interstate 10 near Palm Springs on Oct. 23, 2016, because of utility work. The truck was in a lane and didn’t move again immediately.
A bus carrying people back from a desert casino rear-ended the big-rig at 76 mph, driving the trailer more than a dozen feet into the bus. The bus driver and a dozen passengers died and 30 passengers were injured.
Bruce Guilford, 51, of Georgia was charged earlier this month with 13 counts of vehicular manslaughter with gross negligence; 12 counts of felony reckless driving causing injury and 17 misdemeanor counts of reckless driving causing injury.
A CHP investigation concluded that the trucker didn’t move for two minutes after traffic resumed flowing because he had fallen asleep after working illegally long hours.
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