This is what of the scene I was able to capture this afternoon from the wreck on I-85 South, closing all but one lane in each direction:

According to the story on the AJC website

the bus driver struck a median wall, disabling the steering. “The steering parts underneath the bus broke,” police spokesman Eric Schwartz said. The bus then hit utility poles, according to Schwartz. Two people were thrown from the bus into the northbound HOV lane. It was unclear if they were the same two people who died in the accident.

The story erroneously states (sourcing the GDOT website) that four NB lanes and two SB lanes were closed as a result of the wreck. When we passed by it, all but one lane was closed off in each direction.

We spotted one of the bodies in the NB HOV lane, though it was covered by a blanket.

Someone I used to work with once told me she thought transit was “gross.” But, really, that word is a more fitting description of traffic fatalities. This sort of thing happens every day in America.

The Fulton County Medical Examiner’s office identified the dead as Sharon E. Murray, 34, of Dunwoody, and Gary G. Pleasant, 64, of Atlanta.