9 Die as Bus Crashes on Icy Oregon Highway [1]
Weather.com - 12/31/12, AP
Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a multiple-fatality accident after a tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy highway and fell several hundred feet down a steep embankment, about 15 miles east of Pendleton, Ore., on Sunday, Dec. 30, 2012. (Associated Press)
PENDLETON, Ore. — The stretch of rural Oregon interstate where a tour bus crashed through a guardrail and plummeted 100 feet down a steep embankment is so notorious that state transportation officials have published a specific advisory warning of its dangers.
Nine people were killed and more than two dozen injured when the charter bus veered out of control around 10:30 a.m. Sunday on snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon, according to the Oregon State Police.
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