Killer Tour Bus leads 13 Passengers to their Deaths and left 31 injured

Tour bus crashed into the rear of a tractor-trailer on Sunday before dawn, near Palm Spring, California, killing 13 passengers including the driver and injuring 31 passengers, a state police official said Monday.

The bus was en route to Los Angeles from Red Earth Casino, near the Salton Sea.

At a news conference on Sunday afternoon, Jim Abele, a chief with the California Highway Patrol, The bus was traveling west on Interstate 10 when the crash happened near Palm Springs, a city about 100 miles east of Los Angeles.

He said because of the speed of the bus, the truck's trailer pushed about 15 feet into the bus. Causing the massive death of 13 passengers.

The majority of the people killed had been sitting in the front seats of the bus. 

Many of the passengers were asleep at the time of the crash, They were all taken to the hospitals.

"In almost 35 years, I've never been to a crash where there's been 13 confirmed fatal accidents, so it's tough. It's not an easy thing." Said California Chief of police Abele.

National Transportation Safety Board investigators on Sunday were expected to examine the crash scene. The investigation shows that there is no indication of the driver applied the brakes.

Meanwhile, the truck driver that got hit by the bus, did not have any seatbelts on, received only minor injuries. The truck driver was said to pass an inspection last April.

This is one of the deadliest crashed in California in years. 10 people were killed in a crash in Orland California last 2014 when a tractor-trailer crossed a narrow median on interstate 5 and slammed into a bus.

After the crash, ours passed, and the fire fighters are still working on the mangled bus.

The families and friends of the passenger who died in the massive car crashed are still in grief.