Culver City to Laughlin Tour Bus Crash Leaves One Fatality And Twenty-One Injured

May 18, 2008 (by Otto Smyth)

According to reports by Culver City to Laughlin tour bus accident lawyers, a tour bus operated by Royal American that was en-route Saturday on Interstate 40 crashed outside of Barstow California.

It was reported by officials that on the eastbound lanes of Interstate 40 Saturday at approximately 11 a.m. in the Mojave Desert the tour bus that was coming from Culver City and going to Laughlin Nevada. The accident occurred about forty miles east of Barstow and approximately one hundred and thirty-two miles from Laughlin.

The reports are that the tour bus veered from the highway and into a dirt median where it then overturned and skidded approximately one hundred feet. It has been reported that the tour bus was in the left lane traveling at approximately 70 miles per hour and drifted approximately forty feet to the dirt median.
The crash injured twenty-one passengers and there was one fatality according to officials the woman who was killed was thrown from the tour bus, she was identified as Faith Creer, age 31 of Los Angeles.

In a statement by California Highway Patrol Officer Taj Johnson eight of the passengers were severely injured while thirteen were said to have sustained minor injuries in the accident.

After the crash occurred as temperatures in the bus began to rise some of the passengers were able to escape though the windshield that had shattered and many were aided by other passengers and motorists that had stopped to assist the victims of the tour bus crash.

A San Bernardino County Fire Department spokesman Tracey Martinez stated that the passengers boarded the Fox Hills Mall in Culver City and the bus was a Royal American Tours & Charter of Glendale.

The identities of the injured victims have not been released but it is known that Faith Creers mother and daughter were also passengers on the tour bus. There were also reports that she may have been traveling with her husband.

There were approximately six helicopters and nine emergency vehicles, some of which were from a nearby military base. According to a California Highway Patrol spokesperson most of the passengers were from West Los Angles that were on the tour bus.

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