Cause of fatal UC Santa Cruz shuttle crash determined

SANTA CRUZ — UC Santa Cruz police have determined the cause of an accident claiming the life of a campus bus driver after he crashed into historic lime kilns late last year came down to user error.

Dan Stevenson, who began working for the university in 2021 after 22 years as a Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District driver, was operating a shuttle bus with five passengers on the evening of Dec. 12. According to a press release issued Tuesday by UCSC Police Chief Kevin Domby, Stevenson...