Arizona Bus Crash: Six Dead As Bus Rolls on Interstate

A Deadly Bus Crash in Arizona Kills Six

On the Arizona Interstate at 5:27am local time Friday morning a bus rolls over in a deadly crash that has left six people dead, four women and two men. The injured people were treated on the scene before being transported to hospital and witnesses said they could see people being treated on the side of the road. 

Later on Friday the U.S Department of Transportation stated that the bus company was operating illegally.

The crash occurred on Interstate 10 just south of Phoenix according to CNN, when the bus rear-ended a pickup truck. The bus was traveling from Mexico to Los Angeles. As the driver tried to regain control of the bus, it rolled over at least once and several people were ejected from the bus. It is thought that this is when many of the people that died were killed.

Five of the passengers have suffered serious injuries and fifteen in total have been transported to hospital. Among the injured people were two children, one of them an eleven-year-old boy. None of the victims of the crash have been named.

When the bus crash it also caused another crash behind it as a pickup truck slowed down and was rear-ended by a sedan according to the Associated Press. The driver of the sedan was taken to hospital but is not seriously hurt.

The bus belongs to Tierra Santa bus company based in Los Angeles.