Bus Number One Paramedic: A Personal Story Of Accidents

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Boom! Bang! Tires skidding across the pavement with children screaming. It all started April 27th, 2009. I went home on bus number one after school. It was a normal day, until we were hit by a Dodge pickup. Paramedics took all of us from bus number one to the Manchester hospital, and the driver of truck got airlifted to Iowa City.
It all happened on Hwy 13. The driver of the truck fell asleep and crossed the centerline, but he lived. The two in the truck with him both died. I was sitting in the front seat of the bus, Daniel Woods was sitting across from me. Our busdriver, Mary Gentz, was driving. I told Daniel to duck, so we both did. Then there was a huge crash. After we hit I could smell blood, oil and antifreeze. There was lots of commotion and all moving around to get out.
Everyone on the bus went running to the back door, we tried to open the door and it would not open. We tried to kick the windows out of the back door but it did not work. Then we went out through the windows on the side of the bus. We all got off and ran to the other side of the road into the ditch. Most of the bus riders were injured and shook up. The first responders came and secured the area, they also moved the guys out of the truck. A tarp was used to …show more content…

I had a little cut on my finger and my sister had her wrist x-rayed but no damage. My parents had to wait to see us and finally we got to see each other after about an hour. We were sitting in the hospital and, Mom asked the lady from school how driver and riders in the truck were doing. She said “Not good”. We did not know there was more than one in the truck at that time. Then my mom received a cell phone call from my aunt to tell us it was on the news that two were killed in the truck with news coverage showing video of the scene. Eventually we got to go home as Mr. Stanek got our backpacks off the bus. We were free to leave but still very shook

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