'We were covered in blood and glass
The incident, which left 24 passengers hurt, including seven British and two Irish tourists, happened near the airport just after 3am on Wednesday.
Ms Walsh, who suffered injuries to her legs, and her fiancée Molly Victoria Boudier, 24, who sustained a broken jaw, are now back home seeking further hospital treatment.
Ms Walsh, an estate agent, said the driver’s “recklessness” during the downpour is to
blame.
She said: “The driver lost control of the bus because of the speed he was going at. He could have killed us all.”
The couple, who were sitting on the back seat when the coach overturned, described the journey up until the crash as “uncomfortable”.
“Weather conditions were so bad that the visibility on the road was extremely poor,” Ms
Walsh recalled. “So poor in fact that being a driver myself, I would have thought the coach driver would have slowed down or pulled over.”
Ms Walsh noted the roads, which were empty because it was the early hours of the morning, were unlit.
“It was pitch black outside. The only light outside was coming from the flash lightning which was reflecting off the sea and flashing in front of the bus.
“The rain was coming down so strongly that the windscreen wipers couldn’t beat the rain away quick enough.
“I remember looking down the aisle worrying and wondering how the driver could see anything when I couldn’t see the road ahead and couldn’t see anything out of the window.”
She added: “We were so frightened we really started to panic. My partner even joked and said that the coach journey is going to be worse than the flight [back to England].
“The driver had been driving so erratically during the storm that I thought he was just changing lanes very quickly.
“It wasn’t until we heard a woman scream at the front of the coach that we knew something was really wrong.
“The coach had skidded from the middle lane to the left, the driver then tried to steer the bus back to control but with the speed he was going and the speed we were skidding it was too late.
“With my fiancée being next to the window, she remembers looking out and seeing the bus skidding to the side, toward the metal barriers.”
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Ms Walsh, who suffered injuries to her legs, and her fiancée Molly Victoria Boudier, 24, who sustained a broken jaw, are now back home seeking further hospital treatment.
Ms Walsh, an estate agent, said the driver’s “recklessness” during the downpour is to
blame.
She said: “The driver lost control of the bus because of the speed he was going at. He could have killed us all.”
The couple, who were sitting on the back seat when the coach overturned, described the journey up until the crash as “uncomfortable”.
“Weather conditions were so bad that the visibility on the road was extremely poor,” Ms
Walsh recalled. “So poor in fact that being a driver myself, I would have thought the coach driver would have slowed down or pulled over.”
Ms Walsh noted the roads, which were empty because it was the early hours of the morning, were unlit.
“It was pitch black outside. The only light outside was coming from the flash lightning which was reflecting off the sea and flashing in front of the bus.
“The rain was coming down so strongly that the windscreen wipers couldn’t beat the rain away quick enough.
“I remember looking down the aisle worrying and wondering how the driver could see anything when I couldn’t see the road ahead and couldn’t see anything out of the window.”
She added: “We were so frightened we really started to panic. My partner even joked and said that the coach journey is going to be worse than the flight [back to England].
“The driver had been driving so erratically during the storm that I thought he was just changing lanes very quickly.
“It wasn’t until we heard a woman scream at the front of the coach that we knew something was really wrong.
“The coach had skidded from the middle lane to the left, the driver then tried to steer the bus back to control but with the speed he was going and the speed we were skidding it was too late.
“With my fiancée being next to the window, she remembers looking out and seeing the bus skidding to the side, toward the metal barriers.”
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