PUEBLO, Colo. - A Fed Ex driver is in critical condition after a crash on N. Elizabeth Street in Pueblo Wednesday. The crash happened at 11:07 a.m. in the 3200 block of N. Elizabeth, near the Pueblo Country Club. Police say the truck collided with a blue Ford F-150 pickup truck driven by a 42-year-old woman. They say they believe the driver of the pickup was speeding. The 40-year-old man who was driving the Fed Ex truck was thrown from his vehicle and then run over by it. Police say he was taken to Parkview Hospital with life threatening injuries. The driver of the pickup was also taken to Parkview. She suffered minor injuries. The crash is still under investigation.
LOS ANGELES ( Reuters) - Investigators have not determined why a Fed Ex truck driver veered across a Northern California highway last year and slammed into a bus carrying high school students on a college recruitment trip, killing 10 people, authorities said on Friday. Five of the dead were Los Angeles-area students who had been on their way to tour a university campus when the Fed Ex truck collided head-on with their bus on Interstate 5 in the agricultural community of Orland, north of Sacramento. The April crash also killed five adults including a 26-year-old college recruiter and the drivers of the bus and Fed Ex truck. Thirty-nine others were injured, authorities said. California Highway Patrol Sergeant Nathan Parsons, a supervisor in charge of the investigation, told a news conference in Los Angeles that the 13-month probe considered mechanical, human and other factors. The collision was caused, for unknown reasons, by the ( Fed Ex truck) driver's unsafe turning movement, and although fatigue or an undetermined medical condition may have contributed, there is no conclusive evidence, Parsons said. He said sobriety was looked at. None of the drivers had alcohol or medication on board during the time of the collision, Parsons said. We looked at the cell phone data for all drivers. None of the drivers utilized cell phones at the time of the collision. REUTERS/ Max Whittaker A Fed Ex truck drives past a makeshift memorial, set up in memory of those who died last week when a Fed Ex truck collided with a tour bus, beside Interstate 5 in Orland, California, April 17, 2014. Parsons said it had not been possible to determine whether the Fed Ex truck driver had been asleep at the time of the crash, or if he had an undiagnosed medical condition. Evelyn Jimenez's brother Ismael, the reigning homecoming king at a high school in Inglewood, was killed in the crash. She said the victims'.
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