TOUR BUS ACCIDENT 9 KILLED

	TOUR BUS ACCIDENT 9 KILLED Probe of Ore. Tour Bus Crash May Take a Month Published on Dec 31, 2012 Authorities say it may be a month or more before investigators and prosecutors decide whether to file charges in the crash of a tour bus in Eastern Oregon that killed nine people. PENDLETON, Ore. - RCMP in British Columbia were asked Sunday to help notify the relatives of people on a Vancouver-bound tour bus that crashed in Oregon Sunday morning, killing nine people. Police were asked to notify relatives in the Vancouver-area, said RCMP Sgt. Peter Thiessen. "Oregon state police has requested our assistance in regards to that tragic crash in their jurisdiction and requested that we assist in some of the next of kin notifications that may need to be done here in the Lower Mainland or even outside the Lower Mainland," said Thiessen in an interview. "So as we do them, those notifications, we will be supporting those families that are affected and will be providing information back to the Oregon State Police in regards to those next of kin notifications." Thiessen declined to answer questions about the nationalities of the victims. Police say the bus was on its way to Vancouver from Las Vegas and was owned by a Vancouver company called Mi Joo travel. Police say there were a total of 40 people on board. The bus careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment Sunday, killing nine people and injuring more than 20 others, authorities said. The charter <b>...</b>	From: jennifer Hudson Views: 0 0 ratings
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