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A passenger in a fleeing bus says that there were chaotic scenes a few seconds before the accident that claimed the life of Ōhakune Mountain Road on Saturday
A young passenger – a little girl 11 years – is dead and four people are in the hospital in a stable state.
Aleisha Cope and her companion had taken the bus on the routehakune mountain road from the Tūroa skifield as it was too iced for their car
A girl died and died. Other passengers were injured in Saturday's crash.
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Mrs. Cope said that five or ten minutes later, there was a loud noise and other passengers began to ask the driver if the brakes had failed because the bus swerved all the way before crushing
. The driver was shocked and did not really say anything … trying to keep the vehicle on the road and lurching to keep it straight on the road.
The bus, understood as being a 1994 import, hit a few "Someone said that if you have ski helmets or surf helmets, put them in the trash and hurry up to everyone who sat in front, in the back, especially children.
People put themselves in a recovery position, panicked and did not know what to do.
"It was a nightmare and people were shouting and I think people were praying, people were crying. "
A man opened the rear emergency exit and jumped off the bus in motion"
"It was terrifying, to see someone jump off the bus while we were trying to Accelerate on this hill. "
Arriving at a bridge, with a corner of the street, she thought the bus was going
" I thought we were going to go straight and we were going to die. "[19659002] Just around the corner and over the bridge, the bus rolled and crashed.
Ms. Cope's partner helped pull her out of the car's main windshield. bus that was broken
"Everyone was just trying to get out, if they could move."
She now has a lot of "I'm very exhausted and we have a lot of tears today" And our hearts are painful to the family who lost their little one and it's just a traumatic experience.
At the scene of the accident, helicopters were called to help and a number of passengers were taken away "We had up to 30 passengers scattered and a rather chaotic scene," said Steve Yanko, District Manager, St John Manawatu
. He said that it was a normal practice.
"They are in the heat, they are far from the stage where everything a lot of emotion is related to what happened, so we were able to move them away and make good decisions about their care. "
The skifield was closed yesterday, but it's still open this morning after a local iwi karakia" [TRADUCTION] "It was a pretty difficult task to show up at a massive loss site – and a big part from our frontline team responded yesterday, so it's important that we take the time to work on it, "said Ross Copland, CEO of Ruapehu Alpine Lifts. 9659002] A bus service is running – but all Mitsubishi Fuso buses, like the one in the accident, have been pulled off the road until an investigation is either performed.
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