"9 die as tour bus slides off icy highway in Oregon" Associated Press, December 31, 2012
PENDLETON, Ore. — A tour bus crashed through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and went several hundred feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said.
The charter bus carrying about 40 people lost control about 10:30 a.m. on the snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84, according to the Oregon State Police.
The bus came to rest at the bottom of a snowy slope. More than a dozen rescue workers descended the hill and used ropes to help retrieve people from the wreckage in freezing weather....
Lieutenant Greg Hastings said the bus crashed along the west end of the Blue Mountains, and west of an area called Deadman Pass.
Aptly named.
Stretches of highway in the rural and agricultural area of east Oregon tend to be icy in winter months....
Aptly named.
Stretches of highway in the rural and agricultural area of east Oregon tend to be icy in winter months....
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Survivors of Oregon bus crash prepare to go home
The bus was returning to Vancouver, British Columbia, on the final leg of a nine-day tour of the Western United States. The trip was organized by a British Columbia travel agency to carry tourists traveling in small groups. Most of the passengers were Korean."
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Survivors of Oregon bus crash prepare to go home
The bus was returning to Vancouver, British Columbia, on the final leg of a nine-day tour of the Western United States. The trip was organized by a British Columbia travel agency to carry tourists traveling in small groups. Most of the passengers were Korean."
How was your vacation?
Also see: Crash leaves driver dangling in vehicle from overpass for an hour
Wanna go for a hike?
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GRESHAM — Searchers found the body of an Oregon woman who vanished this week on her way to work and a neighbor has been arrested, Gresham police said late Friday night. The body of Whitney Heichel, 21, was found on Larch Mountain, a remote, forested area east of Gresham, Police Chief Craig Junginger said (AP)."
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