I-15 tour bus crash: Van Nuys woman identified as sole fatality
Authorities have identified the lone fatality from a tour bus crash in San Diego County on Thursday as a 64-year-old San Fernando Valley woman.
Tayde Murguia of Van Nuys was killed and 19 people were injured -- six seriously -- when a bus en route to the Valley View Casino overturned on the rain-slicked, southbound Interstate 15 near Bonsall in northwest San Diego County, according to the California Highway Patrol.
Several of the injured were taken to hospitals. Their conditions were not immediately known.
Seven to eight other vehicles were involved, the CHP said. Drugs or alcohol did not appear to be a factor, authorities added.
The crash was one of two involving tour buses on I-15 during Thursday afternoon’s rainstorm.
About the same time as the incident in Bonsall, a tour bus also crashed in south Corona.
In that wreck, 22 of the approximately 35 passengers on a bus returning from the Pala Casino to Westminster were taken to hospitals, said Corona Fire Chief John Medina.
The accident occurred in the northbound lanes of I-15 near Magnolia Avenue, he said.
There were no fatalities, but the extent of passenger injuries was not immediately available.
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