Lt. Greg Hastings said the accident happened west end of the Blue Mountains, and west of an area called "Deadman Pass." Stretches of highway in the rural and agricultural area of east Oregon tend to be icy in winter months.
I-84 is a major east-west highway through Oregon that follows the Columbia River Gorge.
Police did not say where the vehicle was traveling to or from, or information on the company that owns the bus.
The bus crash was the second fatal accident in Oregon on Sunday morning. A 69-year-old man died in a rollover accident.
A spokesman for the American Bus Association said buses carry more than 700 million passengers a year in the United States.
"The industry as a whole is a very safe industry," said Dan Ronan of the Washington, D.C., group. "There are only a handful of accidents every year. Comparatively speaking, we're the safest form of surface transportation."
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