Wednesday, April 16, 2014 • Page 7
NATION & WORLD
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Drivers identified in CA crash One year after
attack, Boston pays tribute
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LOS ANGELES — The drivers of a FedEx freight truck and charter bus that collided head-on last week in Northern California, killing 10, had clean driving records, according to the California Department of Motor Vehicles. The bus company, Silverado Stages, identified the driver late Monday as Talalelei Lealao-Taiao. Family members identified Tim Evans, a 32-yearold husband and father of two young girls, as the FedEx driver. Both were among the 10 killed when the FedEx truck barreled across a grassy median on Interstate 5 north of Sacramento and hit the bus carrying 48 people, including 44 Southern California high school students en route to Humboldt State University. Also among those killed in the fiery crash in Orland were three adult chaperones and five high school students. DMV records did show that Lealao-Taiao’s license had been suspended for about a month in 2004, but no explanation was available because records are purged every 10 years, said Jan Mendoza, a department spokeswoman. In general, the reasons can range from an unpaid parking ticket to driving under the influence, officials said. It was also not immediately clear what type of license it was. Investigators with the National Transportation Safety Board have been trying to figure out what caused the crash, using video footage and witness accounts to piece together the sequence of events. They plan to examine two new pieces of video evidence: One is cellphone video shot by the driver of a Nissan Altima hit by the truck just before it slammed into the bus. The other is footage from a dashboard camera provided by the California Highway Patrol. More clues may also be available from a black boxtype recorder on the bus that
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STUDENTS SIGN a poster on the fence of El Monte High School on Friday in memory of Adrian Castro, a senior among people 10 killed in a bus crash in Orland, Calif., on Thursday.
collects vehicle data. The FedEx signature breakfast burritos on truck also was equipped with a the weekends, Otto added. “We are all just wondering if recorder, but it was destroyed in we can all just wake up already. the fire. The NTSB was in the process It can’t be real,” she said. Evans and his wife were of learning the exact nature of the contents being hauled by high school sweethearts. In a Evans at the time of the crash. Facebook post, Candice Evans Officials have said the two semi- said her husband was “my best trailers — one partly loaded, friend, my teammate, my rock, the other empty — were being my partner in crime.” “He was the guy who ‘just returned to Sacramento when stopped by to say hi’ and had a the collision occurred. way of making Debbie Otto, everyone feel the stepmother We are all just happy,” she of Evans’ wrote. wondering wife, Candice, Friends and described her if we can all family were son-in-law as a just wake up also mourning gentle, devoted already. It the loss of bus family man can’t be real. driver Lealaowho always — Debbie Otto, Taiao. wore a smile. mother-in-law of victim Silverado “He was Stages posted never in a bad mood, never angry,” Otto said. a statement on its website “He’s like the Boy Scout that Monday, saying the company would always stop and help the “mourns the loss of their friend, little old lady. But he was like driver and valued employee, Talalelei Lealao-Taiao, who was that with everyone.” At family gatherings, among those who died in the nieces, nephews and cousins accident.” Lealao-Taiao, 53, joined the “gravitated” toward his laughter company in late March after and good nature, she said. Evans was also a hands-on her former employer closed its father, coaching softball and Sacramento bus yard. “She had a very clean, spotless soccer teams and making his
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safety record when she was with us and was very well-liked by everybody she worked with,” said John Busskohl, chief executive of Ryan’s Express Transportation, where Lealao-Taiao had worked for about two-and-a-half years before moving to Silverado Stages. News of her death hit his colleagues hard as well, Busskohl said. “It was tough on some folks here for sure,” he said. Her daughter, Jordayna Lealao, thanked friends and family for their outpouring of remembrances in one Facebook post. “This is a time that we should celebrate the beautiful life my mother lived,” the post read. “I know she wouldn’t [want] us to be sad right now.” The Glenn County coroner said on Monday that none of the 10 victims had been officially identified because of the extent of damage to the bodies. Authorities are relying on dental records and DNA analysis. Some families, however, have confirmed some of the names of the dead.
BOSTON — A memorial for the anniversary of the Boston Marathon bombings ended Tuesday with a thunderous speech from Vice President Joe Biden, who closed an afternoon highlighting remarks from bombing survivors and dignitaries. “We will never yield, we will never cower, America will never … stand down,” Biden said. “We are Boston. We are America. We respond, we endure, we overcome and we own the finish line! God bless you all, and may God protect our troops.” In Washington, President Barack Obama planned to observe the anniversary with a private moment of silence at the White House. One year after two pressure-cooker bombs tore through the crowd at the finish line at the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than 260 others, people throughout the city paused to reflect on the day with tributes, prayers, speeches and music. At a private ceremony in the morning, families of the victims placed wreaths at the two bombing sites — in front of the Forum restaurant on Boston’s Boylston Street, and near Marathon Sports a block away. Police honor guards stood sentry around the wreaths all day. The marathon will be held on Monday this year. It is expected to be the second most crowded field ever, after the marathon’s centennial in 1996. A year after the marathon, many victims who previously had not spoken to the media have been featured in local newspapers and TV stations. The family of Martin Richard, 8, who was killed in the bombing, appeared in a lengthy two-part Boston Globe story about recovering from the bombing. Signs along the Boylston Street finish line area remind residents to be “Boston Strong,” but no formal memorial has been erected at the bombing sites. Still, those who were near the finish line a year ago say they think about it every day. Gerardo DeFabritiis is a manager at the Tannery, an upscale shoe and clothing store across from the site where the first bomb went off. His daughter and sonin-law were visiting the store on marathon day last year and were about to leave when he called them back in to see a new line of T-shirts. The bomb went off soon after. “They would have been right there,” he said, remembering, pointing to the spot where the bomb went off. He remembers walking outside after the bombing and seeing a woman on the ground, bleeding. He thinks about the bombing whenever he passes over that little piece of sidewalk. He learned something from that day, he said: “When your time comes, your time comes.”
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