She mentally apologized to her parents, saying, “I’m so sorry, Mum and Dad.” The driver saved thousands of lives by swerving the bus into a rock face in a last-ditch gesture of courage.
Sadly, he was the only one of the 52 passengers to die, and he was subsequently posthumously given the Queen’s Commendation for Bravery. A Prolonged Road to Recuperation Only.
The soles of her feet and a few areas of her scalp were unharmed, but Catrin was trapped in the flaming debris and had serious burns to her face, arms, legs, and chest.
Despite almost insurmountable odds, she was airlifted to a hospital in Grenoble. She had more than 200 procedures, including skin grafts using tissue from her scalp,
