Bus Crash Victims' Families Look For Answers
Family members, with loved ones either injured or killed in last week's bus crash along Interstate 10, gathered at the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix on Wednesday.
They were looking for assistance to help with medical bills and find out if there is any legal action they can take against the company that operated the bus, Tierra Santa from California. Bianca Lovatos has an aunt and cousin still in the hospital. They were both badly injured in the crash. Lovatos wants to know how the bus company could operate illegally. "I just don't understand how that could be possible, how somebody operates that way," Lovatos said. "I think they need to take responsibility for what's happened." Six people died and 16 others were injured in last Friday's bus crash, along I-10 near Sacaton. Arizona's Department of Public Safety just released inspection results, which determined that the bus and driver should have never been on the road. Among the violations uncovered: *Defective brakes on more than 20 percent of the vehicle. *No seven day driver's log to keeps track of how long he'd been behind the wheel and how rested he was. *No seven day log for the co-driver. *The driver himself could not read or speak English. According to DPS officials, the investigation into the cause of the crash could take several weeks.
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