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The Yuba City bus disaster occurred on May 21, 1976, in Martinez, California. A chartered school bus transporting 52 passengers on an elevated offramp left the roadway, landing on its roof. [1] Of the 52 passengers (not including the driver), 28 students and an adult adviser were killed in the crash.
The head-on collision was the deadliest incident involving drunk driving and the third-deadliest bus crash in U.S. history. Of the 67 people on the bus (counting the driver), there were 27 fatalities in the crash, the same number as the 1958 Prestonsburg bus disaster, and behind the 1976 Yuba City bus disaster (29) and 1963 Chualar bus crash (32).
Yuba City High School bus tragedy Main article: Yuba City bus disaster In the late morning on May 21, 1976, a bus with the school's choir veered off the Marina Vista/Martinez Exit off-ramp from southbound Highway 680 (now Exit 56 of Interstate 680 ), and fell approximately 30 feet (9 m), landing on its roof and collapsing inwards. [3]
A 64-year-old Marysville man was driving the yellow school bus for the Meridian Elementary School District with 19 children passengers, the CHP Yuba-Sutter office announced Thursday afternoon in a ...
A woman was killed and a motorist hospitalized after their allegedly speeding SUV crashed into a light pole and burst into flames Wednesday in Yuba City, police said. Yuba City police officers ...
October 30, 2023 at 10:17 PM. Oct. 30—A multi-vehicle crash on Sunday morning in Yuba City left at least one person dead and led to the hours-long closure of a busy city street, according to ...
A bus carrying the Yuba City High School a cappella choir fell off Interstate 680 in California, killing 28 students and a teacher. This was the second deadliest bus crash in U.S. history, after the 1963 Chualar bus crash.
1976 Chowchilla kidnapping. On July 15, 1976, in Chowchilla, California, three armed men hijacked a school bus. They abducted the driver and 26 children, ages 5 to 14, and imprisoned them in a truck trailer buried in a quarry in Livermore, California. The bus driver and children managed to escape before the kidnappers could issue their ransom ...