GOODYEAR, Ariz.—A Greyhound bus smashed head-on into a car going the wrong way on a suburban Phoenix highway early Friday, killing the car’s driver and leaving 13 bus passengers with minor injuries, authorities said.
Arizona Department of Public Safety officials said the bus driver “did an amazing job” keeping the vehicle upright after one of its front wheels was damaged in the high-speed collision.
Investigators suspect Sarah Castillo-Cornejo, 24, was impaired by drugs or alcohol when she hit the bus carrying 36 people from San Bernardino, California, to Phoenix on heavily used Interstate 10, DPS spokesman Quentin Mehr said.
Rescue personnel used ladders to extricate at least three injured people on stretchers and helped others climb out of the bus through an emergency window and the torn-open front end, DPS Capt. Tim Mason said.
Twelve people from the bus were released from hospitals after being treated for minor injuries, and one person was being held for overnight observation.
Greyhound representative Lanesha Gipson said another bus took uninjured passengers to Phoenix.
