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What timing---coincidentally, at the exact time those buses crashed at the corner of Melrose & Thomas last Friday, there was a "Virtual Reality" photographer right there, just doing his job to take another panoramic photo of Seattle from Capitol Hill.

Here is his blog entry about it--and following 2 really great panoramic images (from both sides of the buses) of the accident scene.

Quoted: Still a little shaken by the charter bus collision yesterday that almost sent one (if not both) buses full of Job Corps kids plummeting 30 feet onto I-5, we walked back down to the scene, East Thomas Street and Melrose, this morning. The buses had been towed away last night. The west end of East Thomas was vigorously sanded to give the trucks traction, and a temporary guardrail installed. Thank god for the days of plentiful rebar.

This bus and another took a hilly side street since Denny was closed . The other bus (not visible in this picture) apparently pushed this bus all the way down the side street. Had the bus not stopped in time, it would have fallen 30 feet onto I-5.

All this happened one block from my apartment. Picture is taken from my cell phone.

More detail here:
http://faves.com/users/sudha/dot/135727362456

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We had a little excitement on our train trip to Narita airport yesterday. I've not seen details in the news, but we heard at the time that there was an injury accident or suicide which blocked the line leading to our Tokyo station.

So, rather than take the JR Narita Express from Shinagawa, we had to transfer to the Nippori station on the Yamanote line, and then take the Keisei Railways train to Narita.

It was a little nerve wracking - but thankfully we had our guide, Miwako with us, who was able to quickly get us from one station to the next. We made it to our gate about 1/2 hour before we boarded the plane for Los Angeles!

We heard other people on our plane also say they had to do the same thing to make the flight - so it was a big mess.

Today is the (3rd) anniversary of one of the worst railway crashes in Japan's history. The Osaka area train was traveling too fast (in order to make up time from a previous delay) around a curve and derailed. 106 passengers were killed and 555 were injured.

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At the scene of a horrible accident [PIC]