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RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> A 52-year-old woman suspected of leaving the scene after a vehicle crash and a man suspected of encouraging her to leave the scene were arrested, the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department reported Sunday.

Cynthia James of Rancho Cucamonga and Gary Guglielmo, 64, of Upland were taken into custody Friday evening on suspicion of driving under the influence and conspiracy to commit hit and run, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Department.

Both were booked into West Valley Detention Center. She was being held on $30,000 bail and he was released, according to Sheriff’s Department booking records.

The crash occurred about 9:10 p.m. Friday at Archibald Avenue and 19th Street, the statement said.

James, who was driving a 2002 Toyota Sequoia, got out of her vehicle and began to exchange information with the other people but when they noticed James appeared to be under the influence of alcohol they called 9-1-1, the sheriff’s statement said.

Guglielmo then arrived in his car and when he realized law enforcement officers had been called to the scene he talked James into leaving, the sheriff’s statement said.

James got in her car and left with Guglielmo following, but those at the scene took down the license plate numbers of both cars.

The information helped deputies locate the couple at Guglielmo’s home in the 8900 block of Citation Court, the statement said.

The two tried to hide from deputies at the home and were uncooperative before being arrested there, the statement said.

James has been arrested in the past and accused of driving under the influence, the statement said.

Anyone with information on the case is asked to contact Deputy Daniel Smith or Sgt. Phill Dupper at the sheriff’s Rancho Cucamonga station at 909-477-2800 or 909-477-2817.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> The victim of a fatal crash on Elm Avenue has been identified as Scott William Arko of Colton, according to the county coroner’s website.

Arko, 35, was pronounced dead Saturday afternoon at the scene.

Sheriff’s investigators said the crash was reported around 3:25 p.m. Saturday in the 7800 block of Elm Avenue.

Sheriff’s deputies said Brian Salsbury, 25, of Murrieta and Arko were riding tandem on a motorcycle when the crash occurred, according to a statement from the Sheriff’s Department.

The two men were traveling south on Elm Avenue near De Anza Drive when they ran into a parked car, the statement said.

Salisbury and Arko were thrown off the motorcycle.

Rancho Cucamonga Fire Department paramedics found Arko dead, the statement said. Salsbury sustained major injuries and was taken to a hospital.

Neither of the men were wearing helmets, the statement said.

Investigators do not know if speed or alcohol or both played a part in the crash, the statement said.

Anyone who may have witnessed the crash or who may have information on the case is asked to call Deputy Jose Carrillo or Sgt. Phill Dupperwith the Traffic Division at the sheriff’s Rancho Cucamonga station at 909-477-2800 or 909-477-2817.

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> One person died and another was hospitalized Saturday when a motorcycle struck a parked car, according to the Sheriff’s Department.

The victim’s names and genders were not been released.

The crash happened about 3:30 p.m. near Church Avenue and Elm Street, said Jodi Miller, a sheriff’s spokeswoman, in an email.

The Major Accident Investigation Team from the sheriff’s Rancho Cucamonga station is investigating the crash.

Miller did not say whether either of the victims were on the motorcycle or how they were involved.

HACIENDA HEIGHTS >> California Highway Patrol investigators are unable to determine why the driver of a FedEx vehicle veered over the median on Interstate 5 and into oncoming traffic in the April 10, 2014, Orland bus crash that killed 10 and injured more than 30 others, the agency said Friday.

After a 13-month investigation, officers found that “an unsafe turning movement” caused the fatal collision between the FedEx tractor-trailer and a tour bus carrying dozens of Southern California high school students, said CHP Sgt. Nate Parsons during a news conference at the Hacienda Heights Community Center.

“(The FedEx driver) could have fell asleep. He could have had an undiagnosed medical condition,” said Parsons, who led CHP’s Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team for the incident. “We were not able to prove either.”

• Video: CHP statement on investigation into Orland bus crash

Among those killed were El Monte High School senior Adrian Castro and University of La Verne graduate student Arthur Arzola, a chaperone for the trip. Four other Los Angeles-area high school students, two other adult chaperones and both drivers were also killed.

The tour bus was one of three bringing students to Humboldt State University for a prospective student event. The other two buses were not involved in the crash.

Investigators looked at environmental, mechanical and human factors involved in the collision. They also evaluated the accident history of the area over a seven-year period, Parsons said, and determined that the roadway had “a lower than average” collision history.

“We had only nine crashes in that time span,” he said, adding that the traffic volumes of the area were not high enough to warrant a median barrier.

Neither vehicle had any mechanical malfunctions before or after the incident, Parsons said. However, investigators did not have access to the vehicles’ engine control modules, which were destroyed in the fire that broke out immediately after the collision.

The driver had neither drugs nor alcohol in their system and both were reportedly in good health. The FedEx driver slept between eight and 10 hours the night before the collision and had been working for about eight hours at the time.

Cellphone records also showed the drivers were not using their phones at the time of the collision, Parsons added.

Despite the findings announced Friday, Sineva Hosea, 19, a former Long Beach Polytechnic High School student who survived the crash, said she was hoping for more answers.

“I know they’re doing the best that they can,” said Hosea, who is now a freshman at Humboldt State. “I just hope soon we’ll find closure to this.”

• Photos: 10 Killed in Orland Bus Crash

The National Transportation Safety Board, which has not yet completed a separate investigation into the crash, released documents earlier this month that included unconfirmed witness accounts of the crash.

One passenger of the charter bus said he saw the FedEx driver with his head down and slumped toward the door immediately before the crash. Another driver on the highway said the truck’s left turn signal lit up before it moved from the southbound No. 2 lane to the No. 1 lane and drifted across the median.

Parsons said investigators could not prove the witness report and that while there was an indication that the driver may have been making a lane change, the vehicle’s movement does not support that idea.

“The vehicle traveled in a shallow drift across the roadway,” he said. “He crossed the median at a shallow angle with no evasive action.”

Some sleep studies did show that if someone did fall asleep or had a medical issue, the way in which the vehicle traveled through the median “would not likely have woken them up,” Parsons said.

A helicopter was called out today to assist with a rollover crash on highways 395 and 58 in the Barstow area, where people were reportedly thrown from the vehicle, according to initial California Highway Patrol dispatch reports.

The crash took place just before 11:30 a.m., according to the CHP website, however the extent of the injuries are unclear.

According to the incident report, the crash only involved the one vehicle.

More to come.

LOS ANGELES >> More than a year after a fiery wreck between a FedEx semi-truck and a charter bus killed 10, including five high school students, authorities are expected to address the biggest remaining question on Friday: What caused the crash?

The California Highway Patrol is set to release the results of its 13-month investigation at an afternoon news conference after the agency meets with family members of those killed in the April 2014 head-on collision in Orland, about 100 miles north of Sacramento.

The dead were five high school students from the Los Angeles area, three chaperones, and the drivers of the FedEx tractor-trailer and the bus. The bus was full of prospective Humboldt State University students heading for a campus visit.

What has been unclear is why the semi gradually veered across the interstate median and into oncoming traffic. Investigators previously said they found no evidence that the truck driver, 32-year-old Tim Evans, attempted to slow down or swerve.

The National Transportation Safety Board, which is conducting a separate investigation, released documents earlier this month showing Evans had no drugs or alcohol in his system and was reportedly in good health.

Those records also included uncorroborated witness accounts offering insight into the investigation.

One passenger seated three rows behind the bus driver said he saw Evans with his head down and slumped toward the door immediately before the crash. Another driver on the highway said the semi’s left turn signal lit up before it changed lanes and drifted across the median.

A couple in a sedan sideswiped by the truck before the crash reported seeing flames coming out of one of its trailers, but board investigators found no physical evidence to support that.

The National Transportation Safety Board could release its final report this summer, an agency spokesman said last week.

The California Highway Patrol will release Friday the findings of a 13-month investigation into a fatal collision between a truck and a charter bus that killed 10 people and injured more than 30 others in rural Orland.

The crash, which occurred on Interstate 5 on April 10, 2014, involved a tour bus carrying dozens of students from Southern California high schools and a FedEx big rig.

Adrian Castro, El Monte High School senior was one of the five students killed along with three adult chaperones and the drivers of the bus and FedEx truck.

The tour bus was one of three bringing students to Humboldt State University for a prospective student event. The other two buses were not involved in the crash.

CHP officials will release the results of their investigation at 2:30 p.m. at the Hacienda Heights Community Center, 1234 Valencia Ave.

A preliminary report released a few weeks after the collision found that both drivers began their work days in Sacramento. The FedEx driver had delivered two trailers and was on a return trip with two other trailers when he lost control and crossed the median into oncoming traffic.

The bus was chartered to bring Los Angeles-area high school seniors to Humboldt. Its driver took over the trip in Sacramento.

The report by the National Transportation Safety Board did not address why the driver lost control on the evening of April 10.

HONOLULU >> The military on Wednesday said a second Marine has died of injuries he received after an Osprey aircraft crashed during a training exercise last weekend in Hawaii.

Lance Cpl. Matthew Determan of Maricopa, Arizona, was among several people who were injured when the MV-22 Osprey went down at Bellows Air Force Station outside Honolulu on Sunday.

The military said in a statement that Determan, 21, died on Tuesday.

“Our country and our Corps are poorer for his loss, but his example will continue to inspire us,” said Col. Vance L. Cryer, the commander of the 15th Expeditionary Unit.

The death of Lance Cpl. Joshua Barron, 24, of Spokane, Washington, had been announced earlier.

The Osprey, which can fly like a helicopter and a fixed-wing airplane, went down with 21 Marines and a Navy corpsman on board.

Two other Marines are still hospitalized in stable condition, Capt. Brian Block said Wednesday.

The Osprey had taken off from the USS Essex, a Navy ship 100 miles offshore. It was flying to Oahu to drop off infantry Marines for training on land, said Block, a spokesman for the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit.

The crash didn’t stop the unit’s exercises, Block said. The Marines also don’t plan to ground their fleet of Ospreys, despite calls to do so from the governor of Okinawa, Japan, where many of the aircraft are based.

There was still no word on a cause of the crash in the latest statement.

The Ospreys took part this week in the inaugural U.S. Pacific Command Amphibious Leaders Symposium at Bellows Air Force Station on Oahu. However, the training exercise that included the crash was not part of that event.

The Osprey is a tilt-rotor aircraft that can take off and land like a helicopter but flies like an airplane, which gives it a longer range than traditional helicopters.

By Doug Saunders, Staff Writer

California Highway Patrol has reported a crash on the eastbound 10 freeway at the northbound 15 freeway connector in Ontario.

Shortly after 7:30 a.m. a big rig and a Toyota Prius collided, CHP traffic logs show.

Authorities say the big rig fled the scene. No injuries have been reported.