TULE RIVER RESERVATION — A man who on Wednesday was maneuvering an Eagle Mountain Casino tour bus in the casino’s north parking has died.

He was 28.

The man, whose name has not been disclosed pending notification of family, was driving the bus eastbound in the north dirt parking lot at about 10 mph when the bus turned in a northwesterly direction and hit the back of a parked vehicle, the California Highway Patrol reports.

The bus then ran into three additional parked vehicles and continued west toward an abandoned structure.

The front of the bus hit the east wall of the structure, turning south and exiting through the south wall of the structure, CHP reports. The bus continued south down a hill, crossing a dirt road and over a dry river dirt embankment.

Then, the front of the bus struck a rock and came to rest facing a southerly direction, CHP reports.

Eagle Mountain Casino security personnel found the driver unconscious in the driver’s seat. The driver was removed from the bus and two EMTs performed CPR.

The driver was transported to Sierra View District Hospital, where he died due to a medical condition unrelated to the traffic accident, CHP reports.

-- Contact Anita Stackhouse-Hite at 784-5000, Ext. 1043, or astackhouse-hite@portervillerecorder.com.