"I know one doggone thing, he was operating that bus too doggone fast."

Betty Smith says minutes before the bus driver Tim Kelly was involved in the crash, he ran her off the road into this church parking lot.
She says he was barreling down Highway 268, tailgating her car.

"When I looked up, this school bus was coming. I mean this school bus was coming.

Just minutes later, Smith watched as the bus veered off the road and smashed into the treeline.

She grabbed her cell phone, called 9-1-1 and ran to help the students evacuate the mangled bus.

"I holler to the kids to get off the bus, because I was scared it was going to explode. And one of the little children they were screaming, we can't get out. I said kick the window out."

Smith remembers finding De'Sherrime Murray's limp body after she was ejected through the front window.

"So I lent down to her and I got a pulse and then I just started talking to her, I just started talking to her. I don't know what I said. And then she [puffs of breaths] but still no movement. You could just tell she was barely breathing, like that might have been her last breath."

Smith says the images of mangled steel. debris and blood will stick with her forever.

"That is the worst thing I have ever seen and I don't want to see anything like that no more."
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Additional Facts:
UPDATE ON INJURIES:
Dee-Dee's step sister, 17-year-old Kayla Streeter, was also taken to TMH where she remains in serious condition after having her leg and elbow crushed in the accident.

The driver of the bus, Tim Kelly, is in serious but stable condition.

We'll keep you updated on their status as more information becomes available.

FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS:
This Sunday, family and friends will come together to celebrate the life of De'Sherrime Murray.

The viewing will be at 1:00 p.m. and her funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m.

Both at West Gadsden High School's gym.

FCAT:
Students from West Gadsden High School who were supposed to take their F-CAT's Thursday will now be able to take them next Tuesday. Those students involved in the accident will be able to take their test after they are healed and ready to go back to school.