Two people were killed in separate, unrelated collisions involving school buses in Los Angeles County Friday morning, authorities said.
Around 7 a.m., a gray SUV headed east on Avenue M in Lancaster veered into oncoming traffic and collided head-on with a school bus east of 20th Street West, according to Deputy Veronica Fantom, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The driver of the SUV was pronounced dead at the scene, Fantom said.
There were no children on the school bus at the time of the crash, she said, but KTLA reported that two adults on the bus were hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.
It is currently unknown if alcohol, drugs or speed played a role in the crash, Fantom said.
The second fatal crash occurred at the intersection of Del Amo and Norwalk boulevards near the Lakewood-Cerritos border, when a vehicle ran a red light and collided with a school bus about 8:30 a.m., Fantom said.
After hitting the bus, the vehicle then veered onto a nearby sidewalk — colliding with an elderly female bicyclist, Fantom said. LA County Fire Department paramedics responded and pronounced the bicyclist dead at the scene, she said.
No children were on the bus and there were no other known injuries, she said.