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To: dr_lew
OK That makes sense. Coming out of town on the right after crossing the bridge is an old Drive In that was used as a Flea Market. I know where that sign is. The Drive In shut down IIRC in the 1980's.

I looked at Channel 6 {WATE.com} picture and saw where the wreck was. One bus is between John Sevier Intersection and the Drive IN at the bridge. The other is likely on the other side of that intersection.

Looking at this picture it makes more sense http://www.wate.com/story/27528745/injuries-reported-in-east-knoxville-crash-involving-school-bus This is the intersection of John Sevier where you see the white Ford truck front end and is looking onto Ashville Highway from John Sevier and the view to the drivers left is back toward the river bridge and I-40 and the upright bus.

The bus that flipped from other sources looks like it is east of this intersection just barely or off to the right of this picture maybe in the intersection itself. The river bridge is a flat bridge so no overhead structures like the older one would be visible. This bridge IIRC is about a decade or less old.

The ridge line in the background is the river bluff. There is a small ridge between I-40 and the river. The buses could have legally been going as fast as perhaps 45 MPH and a bus fixing to flip could travel a ways. If I could place the Wendy's it would help but I can't remember. I think if you are coming off of John Sevier it is across Ashville Hiway and slightly right.

If a car swerved it was likely jockeying either coming out of John Sevier or wanting to turn onto it. Maybe someone late for work.

IIRC there is a maintenance road at the intersection itself. The intersection is being developed. I haven't been out there in about a month.

11 posted on 12/02/2014 6:46:28 PM PST by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: cva66snipe
One bus is between John Sevier Intersection and the Drive IN at the bridge. The other is likely on the other side of that intersection.

The bus on its side is right at the Flea Market entrance, on the other side of the road adjacent to the new jug handle. The other ( upright ) bus is in the middle of the road 25 yards to the east, and still 165 yards from the intersection with Sevier Hwy. I got these measurements from Google Earth by comparison with screen captures of aerial news video.

In the news videos the police line was on the west side of the Sevier intersection where the news people were broadcasting from, taking video of the accident scene further west down the road.

12 posted on 12/02/2014 8:06:10 PM PST by dr_lew
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