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Bus Crashed Sunday Outside Williams

POSTED: 4:02 pm PDT October 6, 2008
UPDATED: 5:20 pm PDT October 6, 2008

A bus, which was heading to Colusa Casino from Sacramento, was carrying 43 people when it crashed at about 6:10 p.m. Sunday outside the town of Williams. Up to a dozen passengers were thrown from the bus as it violently flipped before coming to rest in waist-deep mud at the edge of a rice field.

Authorities said 35 people were injured. The CHP earlier said 10 people died, but revised the number to eight.

Here is a list of other crashes involving casino buses in the past decade:
  • Aug. 11, 2008: A shuttle bus swerves off a freeway near Las Vegas and slams into the center divider, injuring 29 casino and mall employees.
  • Aug. 10, 2008: A casino bus full of tourists flips over in a median in Tunica, Miss., killing three people and injuring several others.
  • May 17, 2008: A charter bus heading to the gambling town of Laughlin, Nev., overturns on a Mojave Desert freeway near Ludlow, Calif., killing a woman and injuring 22 other people.
  • Jan. 17, 2008: A bus carrying workers to a casino on the Nevada-California line crashes into a guardrail and catches fire, injuring 25 people.
  • Sept. 23, 2006: A bus returning from a casino rolls onto its side in a construction zone in Wright Township, Mich., injuring 11 passengers.
  • Feb. 6, 2006: A bus from New York City to an Atlantic City, N.J., casino crashes through a guardrail and plunges 25 feet, injuring many of 53 passengers.
  • March 15, 2005: A bus heading to a casino in Indio, Calif., smashes into a fire truck on a highway, killing one person and injuring 57.
  • Oct. 9, 2004: A charter bus crashes in Marion, Ark., killing 14 people who had been headed to a Mississippi casino.
  • May 24, 2004: A chartered bus carrying people back to Houston from a casino at Lake Charles, La., slams into a tractor-trailer near Anahuac, Texas, killing a woman and injuring many other people.
  • Feb. 7, 2003: A tour bus taking passengers from New York City to Atlantic City, N.J., falls on its side on a slushy highway, killing two passengers and injuring 28.
  • June 4, 2001: A bus carrying senior citizens to an Atlantic City casino rams into a car on a New Jersey highway, killing the two people in the car and injuring dozens of bus passengers.
  • April 9, 2001: A bus traveling from Mexico to a casino in Southern California swerves to avoid an accident, then overturns on a highway east of San Diego, injuring all 35 passengers.
  • May 9, 1999: A bus heading to a casino in Bay St. Louis, Miss., runs off a highway on Mother's Day, killing 22 people. Investigators said the driver was impaired by severe medical conditions and use of marijuana and an antihistamine.
  • Dec. 24, 1998: A bus headed for Atlantic City casinos skids off a highway and flips over in a ravine on Christmas Eve, killing eight people and injuring 15 others.

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