SEBASTOPOL, Calif. (KCBS) -- A Sonoma County Paratransit bus collided with a flatbed truck carrying a cement mixer on Highway 116 at Llano Road Thursday afternoon, killing an elderly female passenger on board and injuring several others.
The truck was traveling west on Highway 116, just south of Sebastopol, when it turned left into the path of the eastbound bus, CHP Officer Juan Leon said.
"It was an open road. They should have seen each other," Leon said.
The male bus driver and three men in the GMC C6500 flatbed truck suffered moderate to major injuries and were taken to local hospitals.
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Leon said the woman was the only passenger on the bus.
Sonoma County Paratransit is owned by the county and provides door-to-door bus service for passengers who are physically unable to take the larger, fixed-route Sonoma County Transit buses, an agency spokeswoman said.
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