A Living Nightmare

*AHHH!!! We're about to crash!*
*Huh? What?!*
*Rubs eyes*
*CRASH*
*I gotta get out of here!*
*I can't move!...I'm losing conciousness...*
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Kyle King, a survivor of the bus crash that killed four of his Bluffton University teammates,
remembers everything about the crash, including the scream that woke him just before impact.

The bus driver's wife's scream penetrated his headphones.
Then came the sound of tires screeching, and the impact,
as the bus slammed into the concrete barrier on an overpass and plummeted to the ground below.
The bus driver, his wife, and four students died, and others were seriously injured.

Kyle made it out of the bus through the shattered windshield before collapsing completely on Interstate 75.
Once he was out, he found stopped cars all around him. "I felt like a deer in the headlight" he said later.
He then fell into unconciousness.
Kyle said later that he honestly thought he had died.

Kyle recalls the entire scene later in front of reporters.
"I woke up to the driver's wife screaming, and it was all slow motion,"
he said, with tears rolling down his face. "She said something like, 'This isn't the exit ramp'
and then I remember the bus driver saying something, and I actually heard the tires squeal in front of him, trying to get it back under control. And then I felt the bus turn into the guard."

Kyle made it out alive, but with a broken back. It required over six hours of surgery to correct.
With therapy, he is expected to walk again.
several of Kyle's teammates remain in critical or fair condition at a couple of hospitals scattered around Atlanta, Georgia.
The rest of the students escaped with bruises or broken bones, and returned home to Ohio last weekend.

I can't imagine what Kyle has gone through. Imagine a little trip to go play baseball turning into what sounds like a living nightmare!