FOOTSCRAY backpacker Ruth O’Leary thought her neck was broken and she was going to drown as her body tumbled around inside a bus that was swept into raging flood waters in Samoa.
“I was seeing flashes of different colours and just thinking, oh my god, this is the end, I can’t get out of here,” she recalls.
Ms O’Leary was one of about 40 people travelling on the bus in torrential rain when it flipped during a river crossing on the island of Savai’i on Saturday.
Two girls, aged five and 12, were killed and several passengers were taken to the local hospital with broken bones and other serious injuries, the Samoa Observer reported.
