By Cathy Locke
clocke@sacbee.com
The drivers of a big rig truck and a transit bus have been taken to hospitals with major injuries following a collision on Highway 12, east of Highway 160.
Officer Angel Arceo, a spokesman for the California Highway Patrol in Stockton, said the big rig pulling a set of double-bottom dump trailers was traveling west on Highway 12 about 4:40 p.m. just east of the San Joaquin-Sacramento County line. The driver came up on slower traffic and when she tried to slow down, the big rig jack-knifed and went into the eastbound lane where it collided with a South County Transit bus. The driver was the only person on the bus.
Arceo said the big rig, owned by Silva Trucking of French Camp, also collided with a Chevy Blazer, but the driver of the Blazer was not injured.
Arceo declined to give the names of the injured drivers, but he said the bus driver, a 53-year-old woman from Galt, was taken by air ambulance to UC Davis Medical Center. The big rig driver, a 59-year-old woman from Sutter Creek, was taken by air ambulance to John Muir Medical Center in Walnut Creek.
Highway 12 was closed in both directions for nearly three hours.
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