Ya got to be frickin kiddin

Seen fleeing the scene of the crash.

I know now is not the time to bring this up, but I cannot hold my peace - it is time to regulate the sale of buses. Or maybe raise the price of bus ammunition to $500/gallon. Whatever it takes to get these killing machines off the streets.

I drive through there often. Love old school names like "deadman's pass". And that area is indeed treacherous this time of year. Tragic. There were probably few emergency services near there as well.

No one needs a vehicle that can hold more than 10 people. When will we wake up and stop the carnage. These high capacity busses have no legitimate purpose and must be banned!

Ban on assault buses in 3...2...1...

Video games are to blame.

ya know this is really old news ..

Was that over Clayton Ravine or Eastwood Ravine?

The dead pay for the safe passage of those that travel after them.

/Roadkill makes up for being less valuable than humans through sheer quantity

Joke post comparing buses to guns!

From what I read in the other news about this incident, some company run by ethnic Koreans (Mi Joo Tour) is the owner of this bus.

Or, Congress should take action now against this physical cliff.

the problem is irresponsible naming of places along the highway. I blame the government, who should have named that stretch "safe and sound pass" or something similar, and none of this would have happened. Also, they need to move the "deer crossing" at the top of the hill to a safer location.

The bus was out of control before it ran through the rail. Shocking

"Police said the bus may have gone out of control on the highway before crashing through a guardrail and down an embankment."

Or, you know, it may have gone out of control after all of that...

That sucks. They didn't even get to Mount Emily.

There was a very boring priest who would deliver a deadpan mass.

it isn't the bus but the destination that is the killer. these things always happen when the bus destination is a gambling casino. don't enter said property in a vehicle that carries more then 4 people or you could be next. ban assault casinos.

Lenny_da_Hog: From the Oregonian article:

"When the roads get slick you can slide pretty good," Captain Bill Gilliland with the Pendleton Fire Department  said.

well, everyone needs a hobby.

Impressed.

/Dead Man's Curve in Cleveland

This is really, really terrible. No words really.
Our thoughts are with you.

Pants full of macaroni!!: Impressed.

But you didn't show all the rubber on the walls.

Been there ,seen that.

Nobody cares.

/hopefully not obscure

"Coach, where's the men's room?"

I got caught in a snowstorm in Dead Man's Pass in Oregon once. Crazy thing is, due to the fickle nature of Oregon weather, if you can just drive 20 miles, you'll be down on clear, dry highway heading into the Columbia gorge. I drove it out at about 25 MPH, and I concede that it was a very dangerous roadway/ area. Probably because it was like September and most of the state was clear, none of the cars were expecting crap conditions. Eastearn Oregon is a beautiful and surreal place. It will take you from cowboy town to surface of mars within an hour. And it will remind you that life is nasty, brutish, and short.

Oregon, eh? did they die of dysentery?

Remind me what the guard rails are for?

eKonk: Oregon, eh? did they die of dysentery?

They tried to ford the river but their wagon sank crashed through a guardrail.

seatown75: Remind me what the guard rails are for?

Lot of the passes in Colorado have no guardrails. The snow plows snag on them, but if you ask the locals, it's to scare the Texans.

So, Deadpeople Pass?

just slow the hell down,
to many STUPID bus drivers

Last time I was near there in winter, I encountered a triples driver on his rookie run chaining up his trailers instead of drive wheels, wondering why he couldn't climb the hill... I spent about two hours getting him going again...

/csb

We're about to get a new reality show called "Ice road bus drivers"?

RealAmericanHero: Cue people comparing buses to guns like comparing apples to oranges in 3, 2, 1... wait, you already did it? The derp is unstoppable. We must all retreat, the moron army is upon us. Run!

The derp starts when we hear all those laws that you grabbers want to enact that will be closely followed by all those criminals currently using guns to do harm this time!

Baloo Uriza: Last time I was near there in winter, I encountered a triples driver on his rookie run chaining up his trailers instead of drive wheels, wondering why he couldn't climb the hill... I spent about two hours getting him going again...

/csb

Oh, FFS. Is someone who drives for a living really that dense? I guess if he's never driven a private vehicle in compact snow/ice, either, that might explain it, but yeesh ... that kind of ignorance is a little mind-boggling.