Parents of kids in bus crash with Virginia Giuffre throw more doubt on her story
Parents whose children were on the school bus that Virginia Giuffre claimed hit her car at 70mph leaving her close to death have said her story is not believable.
Ms Giuffre said the crash had caused renal failure and left her with just four days to live in a post accompanied by a bruised selfie on Sunday.
Doubts began to emerge 24 hours after the post, when police said only a ‘minor’ collision was reported, with no serious injuries. Two days later, her spokesperson confirmed she was not dying but was being treated in hospital and thought she was posting to a private Facebook account.
Bus driver Ross Munns said ‘there is no way you could get that injury’ from the collision, adding the whole thing had been ‘blown out of proportion’.
He said: ‘If I hit that car at 70, they’d be dead. I used to drive ambulances for years in the country, and I know how to have a good look.’
Some parents of the children travelling on Mr Munns’ bus have backed his account of a relatively minor crash.
Emmie-Rose Wright said her children, aged five, eight and nine, ‘weren’t worried or traumatised at all’.
She told The Telegraph: ‘They got off the bus and said that they had had a small crash. There’s no damage to the bus and none of the kids are injured.’
The mum called the bus driver an ‘upstanding member of the community’ and said ‘there’s no way’ he would have left the scene without calling an ambulance if someone was injured.
Another parent, Hayley Miller, said she was ‘disgusted’ at Ms Giuffre’s allegations accompanying the apparent injuries in her photo.
She insisted the bruises shown ‘are not from the bus incident’.
‘I don’t know what she is trying to get from all of it… but I do feel bad for her and I hope she gets help.’
Cheryl Sassela, 71, a caretaker at Ms Giuffre’s £1million weekend hobby farm, said the crash that left her vehicle with a broken tail-light led to a mix-up.
The farmhand said: ‘I’m sure Virginia will issue a statement soon to clear it all up.’
Mr Munns, who had 29 children on his bus near Perth, Western Australia, said the car he had been behind for two miles suddenly turned in front of him to go down a side road.
He sounded his horn, but the vehicles collided, and he swapped details with Ms Sassela.
He said: ‘I told her she needs to put her indicator on when you have to turn. That’s all the conversation was, and she asked how the kids were, and I said, “fine”. It wasn’t a major crash.’
When he rang her the next day, she told him her passenger suffered a black eye. ‘I didn’t even see her in the car,’ he added. He then decided to report it to authorities as he felt ‘a little bit suss’.
He said: ‘I’ve got the all-clear from the police and if they want to come for insurance, I’ll fight that as well.’
Days later, when he saw Ms Giuffre’s Instagram post, he felt ‘uneasy’, adding: ‘She said she was hit by a bus at 70mph and all buses in Western Australia are governed to 60mph.
‘I know what happened and it’s just all blown out of proportion. There’s no way you could get that injury if you were in that car. I actually feel sorry for her. I’d rather this just go away.’
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