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El Paso Woman Says Passenger Dies On Bus

Posted: 2:13 pm MDT July 7, 2009Updated: 8:06 pm MDT July 7, 2009

An El Paso woman said a fellow passenger on a charter bus she was riding died during their trip from Las Vegas back to El Paso. Jasmine Debruhl said it happened Monday, on an El Paso Los Angeles Limousine charter bus that was heading back to El Paso.

Debruhl said the elderly woman kept vomiting all night and complained of having a headache. She said the bus did not stop while the woman was vomiting and the driver didn’t check on the woman. She said the driver of the bus eventually pulled over to wait on an ambulance, but it was too late.

“So I checked her pulse and I did not find a pulse in both of her hands or her neck and I was like, ‘This woman just died,’” Debruhl told KFOX14.

Debruhl said the bus stopped in Bowie, AZ to wait for an ambulance to help the woman. Tuesday, a police dispatcher in Wilcox, AZ confirmed that officers handled the case of a woman who died on a chartered bus in Bowie, AZ, but declined to give details.

KFOX14 tried calling El Paso Los Angeles Limousine, but no one returned the station’s telephone calls.

KFOX14 also contacted the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and a spokesman, Duane DeBruyne, said that interstate bus drivers do not have to have to be certified in CPR nor does the bus have to be equipped with first aid kits.
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