A 55-year-old woman died and nearly two dozen others were injured in a crash involving a bus and two cars near Kramer Junction, about 100 km northeast to Los Angeles, on Monday.

The crash was reported just after noon after a white tour bus drifted into the opposite lane striking one of the two vehicles head-on, California Highway Patrol (CHP) Officer Brian Benson was quoted as saying by local KTLA 5 TV.

The 27 injured, including the bus driver, were sent to hospitals nearby,nine of them suffered life-threatening injuries, KTLA reported.

The bus, which was labeled "U-best holiday" and its Chinese brand, was registered in Arcadia, a outskirts of LA, and was owned by a Chinese couple, according to a local businessman familiar to the tourism industry. The businessman also suggested that the passengers very likely came from China.

However, so far the CHP has only confirmed the the dead was not Asian.

The Chinese consul in LA departed Monday evening to the hospitals to identify the wounded.

So far, investigators are not aware why the bus, which had almost 30 people on board running from Arcadia to Las Vegas, moved into oncoming lanes, and they do not suspect speed, alcohol or drugs, or weather, according to a report of the local sbsun.com website. Endi

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