Miracle! Newborn breastfeeding baby survives deadly bus crash with mom

A mother
seated in between two people who lost their lives in a deadly bus
crash on Wednesday morning, has said it was a miracle that her newborn
daughter survived the accident.
Ana Perez was
breastfeeding her 12-day-old baby on her lap when the passenger bus she
was on rolled over some debris from an earlier crash and lost control.
The bus rolled over and
ended up 50 feet off the freeway in the desert in Blythe, California,
near the Arizona border. 32 people were on the westbound bus, heading
from El Paso to Los Angeles. Four passengers were killed, Ana says
including the two who were sitting on either side of her.
With nothing but some blankets and the strength of her arms (and a mother’s love!) Ana held on tight to her little girl.
“It was really, really bad,” she. “It was
horrible. I didn’t let her go … when I got up, I was in between two dead
bodies. It was horrible.”
Ana and little Daniela were rescued by
first-responders through the emergency exit in the roof of the bus. Her
only injuries were bruising on her legs and back, but she could hear
people screaming as they tried to make their way out of the crash.
According to Cal Trans officials, it looks
like a big rig headed the opposite direction jack-knifed and left a load
of steel pipes scattered on the road. Ana also said that the bus driver
appeared to “do everything he could” to avoid the pipes, but was unable
to.
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