Jim and Karen in Mexico Bus Crash!

Jim Lait

Karen Lait doesn’t remember her tour bus crashing head on with a tractor-trailer along a Mexican highway Monday afternoon.

All she recalls from before the accident is getting off the bus for lunch, getting back on after eating and then being told she is going to be OK as her head was being braced while her husband Jim, 60, lay motionless on the bus floor.

The Laits are recovering from non-life threatening injuries in a Mexican hospital after surviving a deadly and horrifying crash in the state of Coahuila. Eleven people died, including three Canadians. Among the deceased was a friend of the Laits, Carolyn Kowaleski of Caledonia. Her husband, Randy, survived.

In good spirits, speaking to the Post from her hospital bed — her room is next door to Jim’s — Karen, 58, explained how lucky she feels to be alive and how sad she feels for families whose loved ones died in the accident.

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