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posted
12/19/08 12:43 PM
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12/19/08 01:45 PM
Accident leaves bus hanging over I5
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| They are actually charter buses. | |
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Tour buses went out in this weather?
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| A lawyer is going to have a field day with this one. | |
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Wow!
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Anyone close to tv at 12:53pm - turn on ch 5 because they have this amazing/scary scene on live. Update: Ch 5 replays their noon-1pm news on Kong 6/16 from 1-2. So you can watch the drama unfold around 1:30pm. |
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Why?
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| Why were they going down Thomas? Even under normal conditions, that is not a street for large charter busses to be driving on. | |
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not smart
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| Why were those buses driving down that street anyways? knowing that it's a steep icy street that basically dead ends to a cliff over the freeway. | |
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RE: not smart
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| A kid on one of the buses was telling a gaggle of reporters that the driver was driving direction that sounded like they were going to take Denny but found it closed and started looking for an alternate route. | |
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live stream from ch 7 & photo from dot cam
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http://www.kirotv.com/video/18319558/detail.html photo |
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cnn
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CNN has a live video stream... http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream3 |
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Kids walking South on Bellevue...
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| I haven't checked a map to figure out why, but a lot of these kids were walking south on Bellevue past my place, saying they were told they were supposed to find Stewart street. That's pretty messed up...! I can't believe there wasn't some way to pick them up and take them where they were supposed to go. | |
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RE: Kids walking South on Bellevue...
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Oh man, it's even worse than I thought. They were totally lost. They must have walked all the way north, to Belmont/Bellevue Place E, and then turned around and headed south. That is so sad. Somebody gave them some really bad directions! But really, it's a shame that their tour company didn't have someone in charge to either make sure they were headed the right way, or better yet, not make them walk on foot in the ice carrying all that luggage. Sheesh. |
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RE: Kids walking South on Bellevue...
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My name is marcus permenter i was on the second bus that crashed over I-5 after all the police took our info we were told that it would take up to 3 hrs for any kind of bus to come pick us up to go the grayhound station and so on. Marcus Permenter M |
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tour = charter
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| To make sure it's clear, these were two charter/tour buses carrying kids home from Jobs Corps http://jobcorps.dol.gov/ described as "a vocational training program" | |
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Great pictures at Seattlest
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Good job MvB:
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I slide down that street too last night
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Some sledders might remember, I slide my little car down Thomas street too last night, just above Summit Ave. I had to turn into the curb and got lucky. It was slippery for a tiny car, I see a bus not being able to stop. Ben |
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Jobcorps
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Is actually more of a "you can go to jail or go to job corps" sort of deal. Traffic is snarled at belleveue and olive, melrose and pike and I'd assume other places as well. They've shut down the denny-thomas block of melrose, and there are cop cars and idiot looky-loos wandering around melrose on the olive-denny block (I'm looking at you, moron lady in the yellow coat). Glad everybody seems to be ok. Hope the bus drivers get tickets for driving while idiotic and aggravated wasting people's time. |
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RE: Jobcorps
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| Also, there's a metro bus there now with TRM on its sign. Maybe they got that for the kids to take. | |
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RE: Jobcorps
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| Job Corps is not a "you can go to jail or go to job corps" sort of deal. Yes there are a limited few kids there with those conditions, however the majority are kids that want a chance at completing their education and also getting certification in some sort of trade so that they have a chance in this messed up world. | |
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Another freaky picture
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Wow
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that is super-insane!
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| makes you think twice about how badly you really need to get in that car...or anything with wheels. | |
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Friends flickr photos
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/72286966@N00/sets/72157611354503945/ Also "Two of three buses carrying students with the Columbia Basin Job Corps home on Christmas break from Moses Lake, and bound for Seattle's Greyhound bus station, slid down an icy street at Melrose Street near Denny Way coming to rest with their front end's hanging over the Interstate 5 freeway." From Seattle PI |
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bus crash
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| I was jsut down there a few minutes ago - this happened a block from my apt. The policeman I spoke with said in an hour or two they were going to begin closing I-5 northbound and have a tow-truck attempt to pull the dangling bus out. They had to scrape ice and sad the road first though which they are doing now. Pretty scary! I took some pictures but they are all pretty much the same as shown above nothing new really. | |
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wtf
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| i wonder why the bus was taking a small side street when a bigger street probably had less snow/less incline. were they thinking of going to melrose after going down thomas and taking a right onto denny?! :( | |
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national coverage
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From down the street to across the country - coverage of the bus crash was everywhere. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/28318906#28318906 |
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Idiot Bus Drivers
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| What kind of fool drives a bus down Thomas in anything like the current snow and ice? This reinforces my aversion to charter buses. Too many of these companies seem to hire idiots who take major chances and subject passengers to unsafe conditions. | |
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Drivers not always to blame for conditions
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| It may not be the drivers who "take major chances." Many companies are known to force employees to "bend" the rules and take risks for the sake of saving a buck. Truck drives are under constant stress to deliver regardless of the safety of conditions. | |
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VR Panoramas of the accident
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I was on the corner of Bellevue & Thomas shooting pictures for my VR Seattle Blog when this happened. See a couple of interactive VR panoramas taken at the scene moments after the accident here: http://tinyurl.com/9tcbmd |
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Fix his hyperlink
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| J., you need to fix Bradford's hyperlink. He did a great job capturing the entire scene. | |
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