Bus crash survivor puts nightmare behind her

(Left) Wolter placing flowers at the site of the fatal accident along the Simpang Pulai-Kampung Raja road, near Cameron Highlands. — KAMARUL ARIFFIN/The Star(Inset) The ill-fated express bus that plunged into a ravine in 2004. — filepic

PERCHED on a boulder overlooking the ravine, she watched the letter in her hand go up in smoke, taking with it all of her negative emotions from the crash she survived more than 13 years ago.

Dutch entrepreneur Frederieke Wolter, 45, was one of the survivors of a deadly bus crash that claimed five lives during a descent from Cameron Highlands on Dec 23, 2004.