Bay Area couple killed in Yosemite National Park rockslide

... Officials have identified the two people who were killed by a rockslide in Yosemite National Park on Tuesday morning. 

According to a statement released by the National Park Service, the victims have been identified as 51-year-old Georgios Theocharous and 35-year-old Ming Yan, a couple from San Jose. 

At about 9:00 a.m. Tuesday, the couple's Dodge Ram was hit by rocks that fell from 1,000 feet above El Portal Road. The impact pushed the vehicle off the highway and onto the embankment of the Merced River. 

About 185 tons of rock fell during the incident, according to the statement. Geologiji from the National Park Service are investigating the cause of the rockslide.....more

 Six people a week die in a national park.  "That works out to about 312 deaths a year"