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Tour bus companies loosely regulated in California
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Jan 22, 2014
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Tour bus companies loosely regulated in California
This is the first of a two-part series in which KPCC’s Ben Bergman and Karen Foshay look at the operators of tour bus companies in California and how loosely they are regulated.
Firefighters help as a tour bus is towed out of a drainage ditch after the bus went off the shoulder of an Interstate 10 off-ramp in Baldwin Park, Calif. on Monday Dec. 23, 2013. The tour bus heading back from a Southern California casino crashed on a freeway east of Los Angeles early Monday, injuring 13 people, authorities said.
Firefighters help as a tour bus is towed out of a drainage ditch after the bus went off the shoulder of an Interstate 10 off-ramp in Baldwin Park, Calif. on Monday Dec. 23, 2013. The tour bus heading back from a Southern California casino crashed on a freeway east of Los Angeles early Monday, injuring 13 people, authorities said.
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This is the first of a two-part series in which KPCC’s Ben Bergman and Karen Foshay look at the operators of tour bus companies in California and how loosely they are regulated.

In the past year, at least 10 people were killed -- and nearly 200 injured in tour bus crashes in Southern California.

Many of those accidents involved so-called casino buses.

The buses -- and their operators -- are loosely regulated.

This morning, in the first of two stories, KPCC's Ben Bergman reports on the casino bus boom.