One of the newscasts quoted a witness saying “a car swerved and forced the buses to slam on their brakes” or such. It appears from the overhead that the crash was not right at the intersection, but maybe 200 yds west of there right at the bridge approach.
I note the schools being served by the two buses lie to the northeast and southwest of the crash site, but I couldn’t say what this implies, except that I doubt they were traveling together.
Also, there is a jug handle right at the crash site which is evidently new, as it does not appear in Google Maps. It appears to be an entrance to a road maintenance site there.
Of course, this is every parent’s, and every grandparent’s, nightmare.
There’s also the old Drive In Theater/Flea Market entrance between the bridge and the intersection. It is immediately south of the bridge right below it on the right going out of town. Wendy’s would be on the left at the intersection I think. www.wbir.com has some more pictures and the Wendy’s sign shows up in it.
It's not a maintenance site, it has a sign saying "Flea Market". There is a left turn lane for it from the westbound lane. ( In Google street view you can see some digging equipment where the jug handle is now. )
One of the buses has heavy front end damage, and the one lying on its side has damage down the length of the exposed side. From this it looks like the first bus swerved across the road and crashed into the side of the other one. One might speculate that someone turned in front of it at that left turn lane, causing the driver to swerve.