I knew at the time and had a lengthy discussion with the reporter who first reported this back when it happened that the ‘facts’ were strongly ‘modified’ to sensationalize the accident. They had the bus driver running the stop sign, and had the bus going in the wrong direction. The photos did not line up with the ‘facts’ in the story. The fact that no charges will be laid lends credence to my arguments.
That intersection is such a dick of a corner. It’s got those stop sign divots and everything, but it’s got a big blind hill coming from the one side, and it’s such an undulating road in that area like it’s up down up down up down as you go by the golf course. It’s so easy to cook through that stop sign if you don’t know the area. Such a tragedy.
Sounds like a reasonable case to make the intersection a 2-way stop and allow the hill side of traffic to take priority.
At the very least there should be more signage warning of the stop.
That’s actually how it is. It’s hard to describe in words, like it’s a bit blind coming from the right side as you cross, but Cobble Hills Road is so up and down too, it’s such a bumpy little area (hence why there used to be a little ski hill there). That stop sign sneaks up on you if you don’t know the area well and it’s hard to know it’s there until you are upon it. I know exactly how it happened, it sucks.