 Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a fatal accident in Blythe, Calif. on Wednesday, May 21, 2014. A tractor-trailer spilled a load of steel pipes onto a highway, triggering a bus crash Wednesday... (Associated Press) 
 
 BLYTHE, Calif. (AP) — In the second deadly recent crash involving a bus and a truck in California, four passengers were killed when their bus struck a load of metal pipes scattered across a dark highway. In addition to the four dead, at least seven passengers were seriously injured, officials said. The truck carried dozens of pipes, some as long as 50 feet. Thirty-two people were on the bus, which was traveling from El Paso, Texas, to Los Angeles after it had stopped in Phoenix for a driver change. Seven passengers were seriously hurt and taken to hospitals, and 14 others sought evaluation of minor injuries, according to CHP officer Jason Gerard. "(The driver) was trying to avoid it, but it was too late," said Perez. A freak accident along the I-10 near the California-Arizona border sent a bus full of sleeping passengers bound for LA rolling over the side of the road on Wednesday, killing 4 people and injuring several others. The driver of the bus, operated by El Paso-Los Angeles Limousine Express Inc., had taken over the route in Phoenix, said Terri Kasinga of California Department of Transportation. "Miracle" Baby's Mother Describes Bus Crash 
 
 A mother and her 12-day-old baby survived a bus crash that killed four people on a freeway about 200 miles east of Los Angeles. She was released from a hospital Wednesday morning and planned to continue on to Los Angeles.
– More information is being released on yesterday's bus crash that killed four in California. The big rig that jackknifed, spilling metal pipes as long as 50 feet across the highway, was trying to pass slower vehicles when it drifted onto the dirt shoulder and lost control, police tell the AP. With no street lights and little moonlight, the pipes would have been tough to see until they were in range of a vehicle's headlights, police say. And within about a minute of them spilling onto the highway, at about 2:15am, the bus hit them. Passengers were thrown around inside as the bus rolled down an embankment, but miraculously, the youngest passenger—a 12-day-old baby girl—was unharmed, NBC News reports. Mother Ana Perez was breastfeeding her newborn daughter, Daniela, at the time of the crash and, "I didn't let her go," says Perez. Though mom ended up bruised after slamming into a window, Daniela was just fine. "It was a miracle." Making that even more the case: Perez says two of the fatalities were sitting next to her. "When I got up, I was in between two dead bodies," Perez adds. "It was horrible." As for the tour bus driver, he "was trying to avoid (the pipes), but it was too late."