Nov 20, 2008 5:50 pm US/Pacific
Bus-Cement Truck Crash Kills Woman On Sonoma Hwy.
SANTA ROSA (CBS 5 / BCN) ―
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Scene of the bus-truck crash in Sonoma County.
CBS
A crash involving a small bus and a truck killed an elderly woman on state Highway 116 just south of Santa Rosa on Thursday afternoon, according to the California Highway Patrol.
It occured just after 1 p.m. on the the highway about 250 feet east of Llano Road in unincorporated Sonoma County, CHP Officer Juan Leon.
He said a Sonoma County Para-transit bus hit a flatbed truck carrying a cement mixer after the driver of the westbound truck apparently made a left turn in front of the eastbound bus.
"It was an open road. They should have seen each other," Leon said.
An elderly woman, who was the lone passenger on the bus, died at the scene, police said. The bus driver and three men in the truck were taken to local hospitals with moderate to severe injuries.
Sonoma County Paratransit is owned by the county and provides door-to-door bus service for passengers who are physically unable to take the larger, fixed-route Sonoma County Transit buses, an agency spokeswoman said.
The truck belongs to Kenyon Plastering Inc., Leon said.
Officers diverted eastbound highway traffic to Daywalt Road throughout the afternoon as investigators examined the wreckage. The CHP said traffic is typically heavy in the area because state Highway 116 is a popular alternate to U.S. Highway 101.
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