Authorities are investigating the cause of the bus crash Sunday that killed 13 passengers headed home from a trip to a California casino. Here is a list of deadly crashes involving casino buses:
Oct. 23, 2016: A bus returning home to Los Angeles from a desert casino trip plowed into the back of a semi-truck near Palm Springs, killing 13 people and injuring 31 others. The bus was carrying 44 passengers. Authorities said it was going much faster than the truck. The driver was among those killed in the accident 100 miles east of Los Angeles. He also owned the bus company, USA Holiday, and had been sued after a USA Holiday bus with another driver collided with a car in 2007, killing the car’s driver and two passengers. Court records say that case was dismissed.
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Oct. 13, 2016: The driver of a Greatime Getaways charter bus was killed when it crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer blocking a highway in north Georgia, about 80 miles from Atlanta. The bus was heading to Harrah’s Valley River Casino in Murphy, North Carolina with 48 people aboard, most of them senior citizens. Most were injured. The tractor-trailer driver was said to be at fault. Passengers said the driver and bus company owner, Richard Rees, was a hero for turning the bus into the truck to avoid swerving and flipping the vehicle.
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