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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Vargo" data-source="post: 3066356" data-attributes="member: 4436">I was a witness to this accident:<a href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/284037_bus06ww.html" target="_blank">http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/284037_bus06ww.html</a>Ignore the comment about a pre-accident scuffle, it's just attention seekers making up stuff for the press.  I saw the whole thing from before the accident (noticed the bicyclist wobbling, saw her get bumped) and stuck around afterwards to help Metro and the police.  I'm doing relatively well now myself, haven't had any nightmares for about a week and a half.  I heard (but not confirmed - I asked a bus driver about her yesterday) that the bus driver is still under psychiatric observation at this point.There were two horrific elements to it - the sheer amount of unluckiness that was involved in the accident (the timing was just so - a second earlier or later and she would have lived) and the aftermath of the accident - the tires went directly over her body and head, leaving only her arms and legs untouched.  I actually went and checked to see if she was still alive, but it was obvious there was nothing left that one could call a living human.Edit: I forgot to mention that the damage was so extensive they weren't even sure if it was a woman who had died the morning after the accident.  Found out that piece of information when a officer called me up and was asking if I was certain it was a woman who had fallen under the bus, several people said it had been a man.</blockquote>

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