A terrifying near-miss involving two young schoolgirls in Colombia who were on the verge of being crushed by a minibus was seen on camera.
When the public transport vehicle came thundering down the street on Tuesday afternoon, October 1, after schools in Ciudad Bolivar, a neighbourhood in the capital city of Bogotá, the two 14-year-old girls were seated on a sidewalk. It was alleged that the vehicle’s breaks had failed.
The minibus was shown on camera soaring over the youths and skidding over a section of the pavement.
Before one of the girls fell to the ground and the other ran and fell into the roadway, the girls managed to stand up.
The car veered to the left and collided with a wooden utility pole.
A girl named Jirley Bermúdez told the Colombian television station CityTV that she and her buddy turned around when they heard a loud bang in the distance, just as the minibus was speeding towards them.
“A miracle, really,” the MarÃa Mercedes Carranza student said. “I felt a tremor on the ground and turned to look back, what I saw was the car rolling.”
According to Bermudez, locals ran onto the roadway, believing at first that the minibus had run them over.
The two girls were prevented from leaving the site by worried neighbours until paramedics arrived.
Head and body scratches were treated for both females.
