"Maine Aid Worker Dies in New Orleans"

:cry:

Police in New Orleans are investigating the bus accident on Saturday that killed a hurricane relief volunteer from Portland.

Meg Perry, 26, was among 13 Mainers who had traveled last month to the Gulf Coast to help victims of Hurricane Katrina. She was well-known in Portland as an activist at People's Free Space, a community organization that focuses on social justice causes.

Perry died Saturday afternoon around 1:30, when the group's bus crashed on Interstate 10 near downtown New Orleans. The driver, 20-year-old Alyssa Wisehart of Connecticut, lost control and hit both guardrails on the interstate before the bus flipped on its side, according to a report on Sunday by the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Wisehart, who was not injured, might have made a last-minute decision to turn for an exit, police told the newspaper. Perry was thrown from the bus.

http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1212-09.htm

and to all the Mainers that have come down to help my hometown.

I saw a fatal crash (a whole family died) when their van and a car crashed into a huge wall on I-10. :(

edit: What good people to come down to help out NOLA.

There have been a slew of fatal accidents north of Seattle recently - people losing control of their cars.

Sympathy for her family and friends.