Crash involving Valley Metro bus leaves man dead in Phoenix
Police are investigating an overnight crash in north Phoenix involving a Valley Metro bus that left another vehicle's driver dead.
Around 12:32 a.m. on Saturday, officers responded to the crash in the area of 7th Street and Bell Road and found the bus and another vehicle involved in the crash, Phoenix police said. The driver, Christian Leal-Coronado, 23, suffered serious injuries and was taken to a hospital but died, according to police. The bus driver and the bus's lone passenger did not sustain injuries in the wreck, police added.
Detectives' preliminary information suggests Leal-Coronado was driving his vehicle southbound on 7th Street approaching Bell Road when, for unknown reasons, he crossed into the northbound lanes all the way to the curb lane and crashed with the city bus, according to police. The bus had been traveling northbound on 7th Street in the curb lane, police said.
Additional information on the wreck is part of an ongoing investigation, police said.
This is at least the fourth deadly incident in as many years involving a Valley Metro bus.
A June 10, 2021, crash involving a Valley Metro bus and four other vehicles left three dead in uptown Phoenix, none of whom were on the bus. A driver was killed in a Jan. 22, 2020, incident where the victim's car was involved in a crash with a Valley Metro bus in Mesa. A vehicle's driver died on Nov. 17, 2019, after reportedly crashing into a Valley Metro bus also in Mesa.
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This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: Crash involving Valley Metro bus leaves man dead in Phoenix
