The State - News from Sept. 24, 1986
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A two-day hearing into the May 30 Starline Tours bus accident that killed 21 elderly Southern Californians and injured 20 others opened in Sparks, Nev., with a National Transportation Safety Board panel questioning a bus company official about driver licensing and training. A California Highway Patrol investigation already has established that driver Ernst Klimeck was going 66 m.p.h. in an area posted with 40 m.p.h. cautionary signs when the bus, returning from a Reno gambling trip, plunged into the icy Walker River north of Bridgeport in the Sierra Nevada.
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