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Investigators probe bus wreckage as victims’ relatives grieve

(MCT) — RIVERSIDE, Calif.—Victor Cabrera Garcia had never seen snow, so his mother and grandparents decided that Sunday was as good a time as any to take the 13-year-old boy on a bus trip to the white-capped San Bernardino Mountains.

But after night fell Sunday, tragedy followed. On the way down the winding mountain road from Big Bear, the passenger bus picked up speed — and then more speed. “We just lost our brakes!” the bus driver reportedly yelled.

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