YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) — California authorities have lowered the death toll in a tour bus crash from eight to seven.
The California Highway Patrol and a San Bernardino County coroner’s investigator said Monday it was initially believed two bodies had remained inside inaccessible wreckage, but there turned out to be only one.
The bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico, to the San Bernardino Mountains east of Los Angeles collided with two other vehicles Sunday night. Debris and body parts created a scene of horrific carnage.
The bus could not be entered until Monday because the wreckage was perched precariously off the side of a road.
Dozens of people were injured, some critically.
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San Bernardino County firefighters hang a drape over the smashed front of a tour bus where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured after it collided with tow other vehicles just north of Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. The bus was carying a group from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Skid marks from a tour bus are seen Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, after the bus, background, collided with two other vehicles and crashed Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring 38, on Highway 38 just north of Yucaipa, Calif. The bus was carrying a tour group from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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San Bernardino County firefighters hang a drape over the smashed front of a tour bus where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured after it collided with tow other vehicles just north of Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. The bus was carying a group from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
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Skid marks from a tour bus are seen Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, after the bus, background, collided with two other vehicles and crashed Sunday, killing at least eight people and injuring 38, on Highway 38 just north of Yucaipa, Calif. The bus was carrying a tour group from Tijuana, Mexico. (AP Photo/Reed Saxon)
