Drive Safe(r)

http://www.contracostatimes.com/ci_5616932

Janice Ferris, a 34-year-old bookkeeper from San Leandro, had spent the evening socializing in Walnut Creek. She had an illegal blood alcohol level of 0.17 when her Honda compact struck a tunnel curb and came to rest in the fast lane one-third of the way through the northern bore.

Within minutes, the front wheel of a gasoline tanker driven by Sacramento resident Mervyn Lee Metzker struck Ferris's car. Then, a speeding out-of-service AC Transit bus with 55-year-old John Dykes at the wheel swerved to avoid the tanker and hit both vehicles. Dykes was thrown from the bus, which crashed into a concrete support pier outside the tunnel. The bus's impact opened the tanker, spilling 8,800 gallons of gasoline, igniting a 2,000-degree fire.