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I woke at 2:30 am to our bus slowing down and then to a sudden thrust, dust, and screams. I could barely see. I honestly thought we were bombed. Within seconds I had my small bag over my shoulder telling my mom to come. She only said, "Kali, I'm stuck." Immediately, I assessed what the hell was going on. We were hit by a bus behind us. This caused the luggage compartment behind us to push our entire row of seats forward into the seats in front of us, leaving my mom's right leg sandwiched between the two. Luckily, my big backpack was there to help buffer the situation. It took maybe 20 minutes to ease her foot out, in the process I had to wedge myself between my seat and the one in front of her to break it, to relieve some of the pressure. It helped, but didn't solve the problem. The man, on her right, was not hurt because the frame of the bus blocked him from being pushed forward. He helped get her foot out, once it was out, we wrapped it in a piece of cloth- it was bleeding-a lot. Some of her flesh is still on that bus. I crawled out of the way to another seat, within seconds I could barely see or hear and felt like I was going to vomit. While doing so, I had my head hanging out the window to see the other bus- the entire windshield was broken and shattered. Anyway, I forgot to mention, my headlamp came into use numerous times. The older man next to me disappeared, but his little boy was screaming endlessly. He was stuck between two seats, without the cushion of a backpack. Eventually people got him out, without blood too. People came and went, some were eager to help and others were ass holes. Within 45 minutes or so and a few more weird head moments, an ambulance came. I remember being assisted out, as soon as I stood up, the world became fuzzy again. I had to sit. Once I made it out to the ambulance, people were being bandaged up. I still couldn't see or hear well, and I still thought I was going to vomit. As my mom was being fixed up, the boy and his grandfather were carried to the ambulance. The boy had a broken leg and the grandfather's right leg was broke in two in two places below his shin, all the skin was in tact, it was just the bone that broke. more later