Inspection record of bus firm in CA crash detailed
By TAMI ABDOLLAHBy TAMI ABDOLLAH, Associated Press?
?Investigators examine body bags of victims near the scene where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured after a tour bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles near Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Investigators examine body bags of victims near the scene where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured after a tour bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles near Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Nick Ut)
Victims of a fatal bus crash reach out to comfort each other in the wake of the crash where at least eight people were killed and nearly two dozen injured when a bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles on its way back from Big Bear Lake on Highway 38 north of Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. Both sides of the highway remained closed two and a half hours after the crash and it was unclear when it would reopen. (AP Photo/The Sun, Rick Sforza) MANDATORY CREDIT
EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - The arm of a victim hangs out the side of a bus, early Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured Sunday after the tour bus carrying Mexican tourists careened out of control while traveling down a mountain road, striking a car, flipping and plowing into a pickup truck, near Yucaipa, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
Investigators work at the scene, early Monday, Feb. 4, 2013, of the accident where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured Sunday after a tour bus carrying Mexican tourists careened out of control while traveling down a mountain road, striking a car, flipping and plowing into a pickup truck, near Yucaipa, Calif. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
An investigator photographs the scene of the accident where at least eight people were killed and 38 people were injured after a tour bus carrying a group from Tijuana, Mexico crashed with two other vehicles near Yucaipa, Calif., Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu)
YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) ? The company linked to a tour bus involved in a deadly crash in Southern California failed more than a third of federal vehicle safety inspections in the last two years.
U.S. government records show that buses operated by the firm Scapadas Magicas of National City, Calif., flunked 36 percent of random inspections on their vehicles? in some cases for brake and tire problems.
That's higher than the national average for similar companies ? a 21 percent failure rate.
The California company had an overall "satisfactory" rating from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ? but records show three-quarters of similar companies had better safety records.
Lettering on the 1996 bus indicates it was operated by Scapadas Magicas.
At least eight people were killed in Sunday night's crash.
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