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Page 6A NATION East Oregonian Thursday, August 4, 2016 Four Mexican nationals die in California crash of bus headed to Pasco ATWATER, Calif. (AP) — A husband and wife traveling to see their daughter in Pasco were among the four Mexicans nationals identiied Wednesday as those killed when a bus slammed into a highway sign that tore through the vehicle in California’s Central Valley. The identities were released as investigators started piecing together what led to the crash early Tuesday. Among the possible factors being examined are driver fatigue and mechanical problems. “At this point we don’t know what occurred immediately before the crash,” said Don Karol, a senior highway accident investigator for the National Transportation Safety Board. Driver fatigue is a natural place to look considering the collision happened around 3:30 a.m., said Henry Jasny, senior vice president of Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety. “We’re daytime creatures,” Jasny said. “Our bodies want to sleep at night.” Federal rules for bus drivers needs to change, Jasny said. After 10 hours continuously behind the wheel, bus drivers must be off for eight hours. Truckers are allowed to drive 11 hours, but have longer required rest periods at 10 hours. “The consequences are very serious in terms of the numbers of lives at stake on a bus,” he said. It’s unclear how long driver Mario David Vasquez, 57 of the Los Angeles area, had been behind the wheel. Investigators have not been able to interview him because of his injuries, California Highway Patrol Oficer Moises Onsurez said. There were 27 people, including the driver, aboard when the bus struck an exit sign post amid San Joaquin Valley farmland, oficials said. Of the survivors, seven suffered major injuries, and 16 had minor to moderate injuries. The California Highway Patrol initially reported ive deaths, but Merced County Sheriff Vern Warnke lowered the count to four after canvassing hospitals and the coro- ner’s ofice in an adjacent county. “It was chaotic,” CHP Capt. Brian Hawkins said of the miscount. The crash split the bus down the middle. The local sheriff has said rescuers pulled “bags of body parts” from the bus. Some survivors suffered severed limbs. Investigations into such crashes can last months before a probable cause is determined. The probe will also look into possible distractions or medical issues the driver suffered, as well as other drivers or hazards in the road and whether the bus company had a culture of safety problems. Oficials said they want to give survivors and relatives of the dead answers as well as make bus travel safe. The dead include Fernando Ramirez, 57, and Petra Carillo Ruiz, 64, a married couple from Mexico who were traveling to visit a daughter in Pasco, Washington. Jose Morales Bravo, 58, lived most recently in Avalon, California, but came from Concepcion de Buenos Aires in the state of Jalisco, according to relatives. Oficials said Bravo’s wife was among those hospitalized. A fourth victim was identiied as Jaime De Los Santos, 38, of Tijuana, Mexico. Relatives describe him as a devoted family man with four children. Eva Maria Morales wept as she talked about her father, Jose Morales Bravo. “He was a good father,” she said in Spanish from her home on Santa Catalina Island, off the Los Angeles coast. “He loved being with his children.” She said her parents made sure to visit all their children at least once a year and had most recently left Catalina for Washington state, where two of them live. Morales said her mother was devastated but expected to survive. 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Banks also rose, and investors sold traditionally safe stocks. A survey showed that hiring by private companies continued at a solid but uninspiring clip in July. Stocks opened lower but gradually recovered to inish at their highest levels of the day. The price of oil jumped after the U.S. government said gasoline stockpiles shrank last week. A survey showed private U.S. business payrolls grew by 179,000 in July as retailers and shipping irms hired more workers. That suggests hiring is still healthy, but that wasn’t enough to excite investors. The Dow Jones industrial average broke a seven-day losing streak and added 41.23 points, or 0.2 percent, to 18,355. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index gained 6.76 points, or 0.3 percent, to 2,163.79. The Nasdaq composite rose 22 points, or 0.4 percent, to 5,159.74. Experts think a Friday report will show a gain of about 175,000 jobs. FOX U.S. stocks tick higher as energy prices jump CBS TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback assured the public that the income tax cuts he championed would stimulate the Kansas economy, supply plenty of money for schools and give other states a “pro-growth” policy model to follow. But voters, including many Republicans, appear to have rejected that idea in the face of budget woes and court battles over education funding. On Tuesday, they ousted 11 of the conservative governor’s allies in favor of more centrist candidates. The GOP incumbents who lost in the primary included the Senate’s majority leader. Another three conservative House members were trailing Wednesday in still-undecided races. “It’s a mandate when you see the incumbents that supported the policies that have us in the position that we’re in today,” said John Skubal, a city council member in the Kansas City suburb of Overland Park, who defeated a conservative state senator. “The people are saying they don’t work.” Kansas has struggled to balance its budget since the GOP-dominated Legislature slashed personal income taxes in 2012 and 2013 at Brownback’s urging. That created concerns among NBC educators about future spending on schools, even as many Republicans regarded the $4 billion-plus a year the state now spends as generous. ABC GOP governor’s allies suffer in backlash in Kansas primary PBS BRIEFLY STATION State Route 99 when it crashed, only a few miles from its next stop, where it was scheduled to change drivers. Passenger Leonardo Sanchez was sleeping peacefully on the bus carrying him to Oregon to pick blueberries when he was suddenly thrown face-irst into the back of the seat in front of him. He said only about eight people, including himself, escaped largely unscathed. “We couldn’t pull people out because there was shattered glass everywhere, seats destroyed,” Sanchez said. Some victims were thrown from the bus into a ditch. Autobuses Coordinados USA was operating the bus. Calls to various telephone listings for the company have gone unanswered. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration listed the carrier as having a “satisfactory” rating as of May 17. The bus was inspected in April and had three violations, including a lack of or a defective brake warning device. 12 AM 12:30 1 AM 1:30 2 AM 2:30 3 AM 3:30 AngerM. :35 Hot In :05 CR TV Featuring a selection of products and services. Loves Ray TMZ Dish Queens Raising Commun. Cougar T Paid S. 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