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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.

WBIR has a new picture & article update up. It's definitely before the intersection and now they have some idea as to what happened. The picture WBIR has up is deceiving because it is telephoto. You can't get any distance perspective as the picture is very compacted in relation to the true layout. IOW the highway is quite a bit longer from the hill to the bridges to the wreck site. From the top of the hill to the wreck is likely a half mile or more. It looks like from reports one bus coming from the Intermediate school out off Magnolia Ave veered off & went across the median into the other one coming west bound from the grade school. Why? Who knows?

I can't do the Google Earth look ups I'm on very slow dial up service I'm just going on memory. The AutoZone mentioned is across from John Sevier Highway. I knew there was a store there but I couldn't remember if it was a Pilot, Weigles, or what. It's an Autozone. Telephoto media pics weren't helping me any.