Terrible Crash on Aurora Bridge - Closed All This Evening
There was a terrible crash on the Aurora Bridge today at about 11 am between a Ride the Duck bus and a bus carrying North Seattle Community College students and staff. Four people were killed and many critically injured. The Times is reporting that all those killed were from NSCC. I called to find out if any Running Start students might have been on the bus but it appears the students were international students.
From SPS:
Buses heading out early, some already arriving at schools to prepare for delays due to bridge crash. We're notifying all 53,000 families.
From SPS:
Buses heading out early, some already arriving at schools to prepare for delays due to bridge crash. We're notifying all 53,000 families.
Comments
The Aurora Bridge is extremely dangerous with buses and wide rigs that can't fit in the narrow lanes or which shy away from the big concrete barriers on the outside lanes. Everyday I watch it when I ride the bus. Our bus often straddles the lane and it totally confuses drivers. Those wide rigs are a threat to the cars along side them and so if we're talking two wide rigs, it gets even worse.
Very sad.
The Bridge lanes should be one lane only each way.
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reader47
Reduce it to two lanes each way with a barrier between. Plenty of room for that, and it's two lane north of bridge, so why not across bridge?