PALM SPRINGS, Calif. — A tour bus returning home to Los Angeles from a casino trip plowed into the back of a semi-truck on a California highway early Sunday, killing 13 people and injuring 31 others, authorities said. A maintenance crew had slowed down traffic on Interstate 10 before the vehicles crashed just north of the desert resort town of Palm Springs, California Highway Patrol Border Division Chief Jim Abele said. “The speed of bus was so significant that the trailer itself entered about 15 feet into the bus,” Abele told reporters. Fourteen patients were sent to Desert Regional Medical Center in Palm Springs, the area’s only trauma center. In August, a bus in central California hit a highway sign post that tore through the vehicle and left four people dead.

Source: National Post October 24, 2016 00:45 UTC