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WINTER PARK, Colo.--A huge boulder dislodged by a state highway worker rolled off a mountainside yesterday and smashed into a moving sightseeing bus, killing seven people and injuring 15 others, authorities said...
...Hopkins, spokesman for the Colorado Highway Department, said a crew was clearing rock above the roadway and that a front-end loader dislodged a large rock...
However, "the rock proceeded over the edge of the large flat area down through several hundred feet of trees onto the highway below, where it collided with the bus," Hopkins had said earlier in a prepared statement...
...highway department is investigating the accident, but Hopkins said he did not know whether any disciplinary action was planned against the equipment operator...
...location. The heat increased to the point where I decided to pull the bus off the road and check it because it was becoming too hot for me to keep my foot on the gas pedal. In the process of negotiating the bus to the right lane of the highway and finding a shoulder suitable to pull over to, I increased my speed to 50 miles per hour. Then the bus began to lose power, and its speed fell back to 35 miles per hour. I knew there was a problem with the bus's engine at that point because...