Speeding Probed in Bus Crash

Speeding may have caused a tour bus filled with Japanese tourists to veer off a highway and plunge into a ravine, injuring 27 of the 30 people on board, police said Thursday. Witnesses said the bus was traveling at least 70 mph, but by law is restricted to 55 mph, investigators said. The bus went off the right side of the highway, down an embankment and 70 feet into the ravine. The bus was on its way back to San Francisco from Yosemite National Park when the accident happened early Wednesday evening on California 120. All but one passenger, a 49-year-old woman who fractured her neck, have been released from the hospital.