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9 die as tour bus crashes on icy Oregon highway

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Emergency personnel respond to the scene of a multiple-fatality accident Sunday after a tour bus careened through a guardrail along an icy highway and fell several hundred feet down a steep embankment about 15 miles east of Pendleton, Ore., authorities said.

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The stretch of rural Oregon interstate where a tour bus crashed through a guardrail and plummeted 100 feet down a steep embankment is so notorious that state transportation officials have published a specific advisory warning of its dangers. Nine people were killed and more than two dozen injured when the charter bus veered out of control around 10:30 a.m. Sunday on snow- and ice-covered lanes of Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon, according to the Oregon State Police.