Monica, a student of psychology at CTI in Cape Town and the daughter of Annerie and Marius van der

Monica van der Merwe of Oudtshoorn in the bus accident injured. The six victims of the bus crash Friday in another hospital in town, was the speaker of the Greater Oudtshoorn, John Stoffels, and other councilors visited. craft shells
By Liesel le Roux When she finally managed to get out of the bus, she just along the way going down, unable to continue walking, a young Oudtshoorniet, Monica van der Merwe (19), Friday From her hospital craft shells bed in the Klein Karoo Medi-Clinic in Oudtshoorn tell.
Monica, a student of psychology at CTI in Cape Town and the daughter of Annerie and Marius van der Merwe of Oudtshoorn, was last Thursday (May 8) with an Inter-Cape bus on the way home for Mother's Day when the bus 02:00 at the hairpin bend about 13 km outside Oudtshoorn on the road George overturned. Ten people died in the accident.
Monica, on the bus's top deck next to a window, her nose in the accident and broke her hip badly injured. She told her mother called just when the bus down the slope before the hairpin started the descent. She asked her parents for her while at the bus stop at the Queen's Mall will be waiting. "I have my phone on my lap when the bus suddenly tilted to the left. People started screaming. Then tilt the box to the right. There was a grinding noise. "
Monica told people fell on each other. When the bus stops, someone on top of her lying. She had managed to get out of the bus to come. "Outside, many people just sitting. We were very shocked. Only much later I was able to stand and move away. "
Meanwhile, Monica's parents their own nightmare. While at Queen's Mall, waiting for Monica and wondered why the bus took so long, they have an ambulance to see what passes in Langenhoven turned.
Marius decided to follow the ambulance and their biggest fear is realized when they are on the scene come down. "We were far from the scene stops. There was a ribbon stretched across the road and they would not let us, "says Annerie. "My husband was at a second barrier walked. There they told him they could not pass because there are people in the accident died. "
Annerie said about an hour later, two police women in a car came by and saw that they were very upset, offered to find out if they could find Monica. They came and said they found her and she was in the ambulance on the way to the hospital. Friday was the Van der Merwe family thankful. "I am privileged to be here. There is so much that it made it, "Monica said.
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