Floyd Boens’ last conversation with Charice Rush was about how she would be celebrating her 37th birthday. Hours after their conversation, a vehicle she was riding in early Sunday was going the wrong way when it collided with a CTA bus, ultimately ending her life.
Floyd Boens’ last conversation with Charice Rush was about how she would be celebrating her 37th birthday. Hours after their conversation, a vehicle she was riding in early Sunday"I talked to her around 8 o’clock the night before, and she said she was going to a club to celebrate her birthday," said Boens, Rush’s oldest brother. "I didn’t hear anything else from my sister until later when someone called me and told me she was in a bad car accident.
Just before 6 a.m., Rush, along with two friends, 29-year-old Dontrell Biggs and 32-year-old Christina Biggs, were in a Dodge Journey heading northbound in the 4400 block of South DuSable Lake Shore Drive when the car made a sudden U-turn and struck aRush was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead, police said. Dontrell Biggs, who was driving, was taken to the hospital in critical condition.
"She called me because I had texted her happy birthday, but I was at work," said Antoine Ware. "I never got the chance to call her back."Thirteen passengers on the bus were treated for minor injuries, and seven others declined treatment at the scene, fire officials said.Madeline Tiani of Hyde Park said she remembers reading as she headed to work when the bus suddenly jolted. She looked up to see the windows burst, sending little bits of glass in every direction.
"Then I saw the tire wheel of the other car flying in the air," Tiani said. "The car that hit us, just as soon as it hit us, had vanished. It was really quick."Many of the passengers on the bus walked away with just bumps and bruises, officials said.Another passenger, Marissa Wright of Hyde Park said she was looking down at her phone when she heard yelling and the bus swerved.
"The car hit the bus and then it caught on fire," Wright said. Emergency responders "got there pretty quickly and attended to the car first."Like others on the bus, Tiani said she didn’t need to go to the hospital and went straight to work after the crash.
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