The school bus driver who allegedly hit Jeffrey Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre said the mom of three was completely exaggerating when she suggested the accident nearly killed her.
Giuffre, 41, who was allegedly sex-trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein to have sex with Prince Andrew when she was a teenager, made headlines on Tuesday when she posted a harrowing picture of herself in a hospital bed covered in bruises, claiming she had only “four days to live.”
Ross Munns, the bus driver involved in what Australian police dubbed a “minor” collision, said Giuffre’s posts on social media had “blown (it) out of proportion,” the Daily Mail reported.
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The bus driver claimed the incident — which occurred in Neergabby, just after 3 p.m. on March 24 — happened when he tried to overtake a slow-moving white Toyota Highlander driven by a 71-year-old woman.
Munns, who was driving with 29 kids on board at the time, said he started to pass the car only for it to turn right, causing him to clip the vehicle and damage its taillight.
“The driver basically pulled out in front of me. I made sure she was all right, and I went and did a police report,” Munns told the outlet.
“She was elderly and I asked if she was OK, and she said, ‘Yes, I’m OK,’” he added.
Munn maintains that he never actually saw Giuffre inside the vehicle, and his only other interaction with the driver entailed checking on her condition and warning her to put up her signals when making a turn.
“That’s all the conversation was, and she asked how the kids (on the bus) were and I said, ‘Fine.’ It wasn’t a major crash,” he concluded.
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Police confirmed that Munn had contacted them the following day, adding that no injuries were reported as a result of the crash, which left the car with about $2,000 worth in damages.
Munn said he was not obligated to report the incident to police, but did so because he had an uneasy feeling about the crash.
After informing the driver that he had contacted the police, the woman allegedly revealed to him that there was a passenger in the car who had suffered “a black eye.”
The bus driver was ultimately shocked to learn that the whole incident became news across the globe following Giuffre’s post on Instagram.
In that original post, which a Guiffre spokesperson said was intended for a private Facebook account, she claimed she had “gone into kidney renal failure” after a bus allegedly traveling at 68 mph plowed into her.
“I’m ready to go, just want to see my babies,” she wrote.
Giuffre, who was born in the US but relocated to Australia, was reportedly discharged from the hospital the following day and then brought into another hospital the following week, where she was also discharged.
Rather than resulting from the crash, Giuffre’s injuries allegedly came from a fall, according to 7News.
With Post wires
