LOS ANGELES >> Rosa Ruiz returned from a gambling jaunt to San Diego before dawn Saturday and was back on another bus that evening, headed for a desert casino. Like others who routinely board buses bound for distant casinos, Ruiz wasn’t so much dreaming of striking it rich, just escaping her normal life for a […]

CHINO HILLS >> Two people were injured, one critically and one moderately, in a two-vehicle collision Friday night on Ramona Avenue beneath the Highway 71 overpass, a fire official said. The two injured people were in the same car and required extrication, Chino Valley Fire District spokesperson wrote in a text. They were brought to […]

CHINO >> A man and a woman were critically injured Friday night in a head-on collision, according to a fire official. Another woman sustained moderate injuries. The collision between two vehicles happened at 6:31 p.m. on Pine Avenue between Hellman Avenue and Homecoming Drive in Chino, Chino Valley Fire District spokesperson Massiel Ladron De Guevara […]

Just four days after a tour bus crash killed 13 people near Palm Springs, the families of two of the dead have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the bus company and its owner-driver who was among the fatalities. Lawyers for the families of 63-year-old Gustavo Garcia and 50-year-old Tony Mia, both of Los Angeles, filed the lawsuit […]

UPLAND >> Police said alcohol and high speed might have been factors in a fatal crash on Euclid Avenue Wednesday that left a black vehicle wrapped around a tree and the vehicle’s engine in the middle of the road. The southbound lanes of Euclid from Ninth to Eighth streets remained shut down at 7:15 p.m. […]

SANTA FE SPRINGS >> The California Highway Patrol is looking for witnesses to a fiery hit-and-run collision on the northbound 605 Freeway earlier this week that left one man dead and three people injured. One driver ran after the crash. The coroner’s office has not released the name of the man who was killed but […]

The wheels of transportation safety move slowly. Safety advocates have been saying for years that seat belts are needed on charter buses; significant training is a must for those who drive the lumbering vehicles; and there have to be better ways to ensure that fatigued operators don’t get behind the wheel. For example, even though […]

When she heard her mother was one of 13 people killed after their tour bus crashed into a semi-truck on the 10 Freeway near Palm Springs early Sunday, Maribel Canas was devastated. “She had a hard life,” Canas said by phone Tuesday. Her mother, Elvia Sanchez, 52, raised Canas and her sister alone in Boyle […]

PHELAN >> The man killed in a head-on crash over the weekend in Phelan has been identified as 26-year-old Mario Bahena, of Fontana, according to the San Bernardino County Coroner’s website. Just after 5 a.m. Sunday, Bahena was driving a 1997 Mercedes–Benz east on Highway 138 approaching Centola Road when, for unknown reasons, his vehicle […]