2 more victims identified in deadly eastern Oregon bus crash
Two more victims have been identified in the bus crash on Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon that killed nine people and injured more than three dozen others.
Chun Ho Bahn, 63, of Bothell, Wash., and Ae Ja Kim, 61, of Gangwon Province, Korea, were identified Thursday morning as having died in the Sunday crash near Pendleton, according to an Oregon State Police news release.
The crash, which occurred on an icy stretch of the highway, injured 38 people in addition to the nine fatalities. The charter bus was bound for Vancouver, B.C., from Las Vegas when it lost control and careened through a guardrail and fell several hundred feet down an embankment.
Also identified earlier were victims 11-year-old Youmin Kim of South Korea, Oun Hong Jung, 67, and his wife, Joong Wha Kim, 63, who were also killed in the crash.
The other identified victims are 75-year-old Yongho Lee of Lynnwood Wash. and 57-year-old Dale William Osborn of Spanaway, Wash.
The Oregon Department of Transportation said Sunday’s crash is the deadliest traffic crash in Oregon since 1971 and ties the second deadliest since 1946.
The deadliest crash in Oregon history happened in 1965 when a Greyhound bus lost control on ice and rolled, killing 14 people and injuring 30 others.
Cabbage Hill in the winter is always risky. And a big 'ol bus makes it worse. I was stranded on a Greyhound bus once between La Grande and Pendleton for 4 hours due to a jack-knifed truck on the road. It's a bad piece of road. My sympathies to the families who have suffered the loss of loved ones.
Can someone who maybe drives a truck inform me why a group would be on I-84 when traveling from Vegas to Vancouver B.C.?
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When i go there, it's 95 to Reno then 395 yadda yeadda, but I-80 to Sacramento then up I-5 to me seems much faster.
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I mean Iâve gone 305 through the middle and that is a slow mountainous route. The only reason to go that way is looking for aliens.
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 @Repoman GoogleMaps shows going north through Nevada to Twin Falls, ID, then head west into Oregon on the way to Vancouver, BC, CA is the shortest route.
 @Unknown  @Repoman @HenryBowman Yet Google Maps doesn't take into account the nastiness of the roads this time of year, and the treacherous conditions.Â
395 through Nevada is a very lonely drive. Zero rest stops, and lots of old mining piles to see. Nothing much, at all.Â
@Repoman I wondered the same thing, so I went to google maps and got directions from Vancouver to Las Vegas. Their apparent route matched what google recommended which is actually two hours shorter than the I-5 route.