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The Federal travel trailer manufacturers online Motor Carrier Safety Administration of the U.S. Department of Transportation said Tierra Santa Inc. had filed application for operating authority in April, and that the company was notified by certified mail that it was not authorized to haul passengers during the application review.
Federal investigators said they were examining the company's California site for safety compliance. The crash happened about 5:30 a.m. on westbound Interstate 10 when the bus rear-ended a pickup truck, swerved into the median travel trailer manufacturers online of the divided highway, then back across the westbound lanes.
I am deeply saddened by this tragic accident and troubled that this carrier continued to operate without authority and without regard for the safety of its passengers," said U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood. travel trailer manufacturers online "The Department will take every action at its disposal to keep companies like this one off the road."
Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman Bart Graves said two men and four women were killed in the bus crash. Up to 23 passengers were believed to be on board. All those killed and injured were on the bus.
The accident scene became a mass of police and rescue personnel as ambulances arrived and rescuers broke out windows of the bus to get to the victims, who were treated in an area in the middle of the interstate.
"It was kind of still dark, and I could here it turning over and over and dust was in the air," Vavages said. Only a few yards away, Vavages said, he could hear the screeching of tires and the crumpling of metal as the bus rolled and scraped across the ground.
Eight survivors are being treated at the Maricopa travel trailer manufacturers online Medical Center for injuries that include bleeding in the brain, damaged lungs, broken spines and broken pelvises. Of the eight patients, six have life-threatening injuries, said Michael Murphy, a spokesman for the hospital.
According to U.S. Department of Transportation, the company's $5 million insurance policies were canceled in July and November. A customer travel trailer manufacturers online service operator for National Continental Insurance Co., a division of Progressive, confirmed that the policy numbers were not active.
In 2007 Tierra Santa partnered with Transportes Turisticos Real de Minas, a tourism transport company based in Fresnillo, Zacatecas. The group provides transportation from several cities in Mexico to cities travel trailer manufacturers online in Arizona and California.
Two vehicles, travel trailer manufacturers online a pickup truck and an Infiniti, travel trailer manufacturers online also crashed after the bus veered off the road. The Infinity collided into the back of the pickup and the passenger in the Infiniti was taken to the hospital with minor injuries.