Hollywood Freeway Bus Crash Investigated

Traffic on the Hollywood Freeway remained snarled or rerouted for much of the morning commute Friday as investigators converged on the North Hollywood site where a Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus jumped the median and caused a 12-car pileup, killing two people.

Investigators focused their investigation on a silver car that they believe clipped the bus while both vehicles were traveling north near Burbank Boulevard at about 60 mph, the California Highway Patrol said.

CHP Officer Robert E. Stegemann said the driver of the car, Claudia Alvarez of Los Angeles, was “upset at being pointed to as the cause of the accident.”

Richard L. Hunt, the MTA’s deputy executive director for operations, said the bus driver was “very shook up” Friday and received counseling. He said the bus had no history of problems.