(Corey Hart would be appalled) He lived in a run-down apartment which his parents in Jersey paid for and he slept on an air mattress. It was later learned that Un-Cool had been a petty thief, a Peeping Tom, part-time vagrant who ate at local missions, and an unemployed emotional wreck who wore sunglasses at night. Another, who was only 43, now lives in a group home and requires a caregiver. All of the 32 other passengers were injured, some permanently disabled. Only one other passenger was killed, 69 year-old Herman Liebelt. Had the bus fallen off the bridge not even 100 more yards south, everyone would have died. ![]() (I walked past that building every day when I worked in Fremont and had no idea it was the building hit) It’s believed that once 44 year-old Mark lost control, he intentionally swerved the bus hard left, to avoid falling 167 feet into Lake Union. It fell onto an apartment building on 36th Street, kitty corner from the world famous Fremont Troll. The bus crossed two lanes of oncoming traffic, hit a van, and plunged 50 feet off the east side of the bridge. He shot him in the abdomen and then shot himself in the head. ![]() For reasons still unknown to this day, 43 year-old Silas Cool, (He wasn't) a New Jersey native, approached Mark and pulled out a. It was mid afternoon on the day after Thanksgiving. 200th Street.Īs Mark approached the Aurora Bridge, (aka Suicide Bridge) which crosses the Lake Union Ship Canal between the Fremont neighborhood and the north slope of Queen Anne hill, his accordion bus was reaching 50 miles per hour. They were coming from the Aurora Village shopping complex at N. On November 27, 1998, Metro bus driver Mark McLaughlin and 34 passengers were cruising south down Aurora Avenue on an express route to downtown Seattle.
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