Fox News: Los Angeles tour bus crash leaves 1 dead, 32 hospitalized on Mother's Day

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Los Angeles tour bus crash leaves 1 dead, 32 hospitalized on Mother's Day

California officials confirm one person was killed and 32 people hospitalized after a tour bus crash on the 60 Freeway in Los Angeles early Mother's Day morning.

                   
                       

Mother's Day took a fatal turn for a driver You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login after their SUV became disabled on a major highway and then was hit by a tour bus, police said.

You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login said it is investigating the two-vehicle crash that left one person dead and sent 32 others to the hospital early Sunday. CHP said the crash happened shortly after 5 a.m. on Highway 60 West when a Nissan Pathfinder became disabled for unknown reasons, blocking traffic and causing the tour bus to collide with the SUV. 

"As a result of the impact, the Nissan Pathfinder became fully engulfed in flames, trapping the lone occupant," a spokesperson for CHP said. 

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Footage from the scene shows the tour bus, which was You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to Koreatown, sustained significant front-end damage as well as a shattered windshield.

One passenger on the tour bus, Joe Runnel, You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login that he was thrown from his seat to the floor and that people were "begging for mercy" in the moments after the crash.

"I was thrown from the backseat of the bus to the floor about three or four seats down," Runnel said. "Glass was on me ... there was a lot of hollering."

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Another driver who witnessed the crash told the outlet that "the situation unfolded so quick" and that "everyone tried to stop, but there was just not enough time."

"It happened so quickly ... a lot of chaos and then just red lights," he said. "It's going to be very [catastrophic], especially because it's Mother's Day ... it's very sad that it had to start like this," the witness said. 

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The westbound 60 Freeway will be closed between Azusa Avenue and Hacienda Boulevard indefinitely, police said. However, officers were able to re-open some lanes as of 7:30 a.m.

Police said the identity of the SUV driver is being withheld pending notification of next of kin.

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