Bus crash victim Siu Yung Ng, 73,, (right) is wheeled into court to testify against the driver blamed in a deadly accident last year. The crash killed 15. (Robert Kalfus)
It took a horrific tragedy to knock this 73-year-old woman out of the job market — and she was one of the lucky ones.
Wheelchair-bound Siu Yung Ng wept today as she told a Bronx jury of how she has suffered after being hurt in the March 2011 casino bus crash that took 15 lives.
Ng, one of 15 people injured in the tragic crash, said she used to work seven days a week as a home health aide.
Now, she’s unemployed.
“The pain is absolutely excruciating. I just want to die,” said Ng.
“I can’t walk. How could I work? … I lost everything. I’m not working. I can not make a living,” she said at the manslaughter trial of bus driver Ophadell Williams.
Bronx prosecutors say Williams, 41, is criminally culpable because he failed to get enough sleep before he got behind the wheel.
Another victim, 63-year-old Siu Ying Ng, said the bus swayed back and forth during the whole trip from the Connecticut casino.
“The bus wasn’t steady,” she said.
The two witnesses are not related.
Federal investigators mostly blamed the accident on Williams’ sleep deprivation.
Fifteen people were killed and 15 were injured in the early-morning crash on the New England Thruway.
The bus, which belonged to Brooklyn-based World Wide Tours, was carrying passengers to New York from the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut.