Four killed, 20 hurt in California bus crash

A Los Angeles-bound passenger bus veered off a Southern California highway on Wednesday and flipped onto its side, killing four people on board and injuring 20 more, California Highway Patrol officials said. As the bus was traveling through the town of Blythe, it encountered pipes on the road that had scattered when a semi-tractor truck hit the center median only minutes earlier, California Highway Patrol spokesman Jason Girard said. The bus driver “saw some debris and veered to the right,” Girard said. The crash comes a little more than a month after a fiery collision between a passenger bus and a semi-tractor trailer in Orland, California, killed 10 people, including five Los Angeles-area high school students.