**right side of the bus is ripped off. Article blames deadly traffic conditions**
Pakistan has one of the world's worst records for fatal traffic accidents due to poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.
bus travelling to Pakistan's southern city of Karachi has collided with a tractor-trailer, killing at least 42 people and injuring 17 others.
Among those killed in Sunday's accident were 14 children and 13 women, the AFP news agency quoted the police as saying. The accident happened in the town of Sukkur, 425km north of Karachi in the southern province of Sindh. Fida Hussain Shah, a senior Sukkur police officer who gave the casualty figure, said the bus driver was killed on the spot while the driver of the tractor-trailer was wounded. Police said the cause of the accident was yet not clear.
eputy on patrol in the Los Angeles suburb first noticed the vehicle at about 4 in the morning this weekend. The car's back half protruded from the side of an apartment complex, Los Angeles County Sheriff's Lt. Ken Wright told CBS Los Angeles.
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"The vehicle was embedded into the building, and went into the bedroom of a 16-year-old girl who has passed away as a result of injuries from the accident, as far as we can tell," Wright reported.
"She was my little sister," Yadira Mendoza said. "I just hope people who drink and drive...I mean...they are just causing pain for many families."
Family members identified the victim as Giselle Mendoza. Friends said the deceased girl was a student at Palmdale High School.
According to the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, 20-year-old Palmdale resident Roberto Rodriguez was arrested in connection with the crash. His Nissan Pathfinder plowed into the corner of the apartment shortly before deputies arrived on the scene.
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