Blind Crash Victims Talk To CBS4

LITTLETON, Colo. (CBS4) - Two women are hoping to make it out of the hospital in time for Christmas -- just four days after getting hit by an SUV while waiting for a bus. Their friend was killed in the accident. All three were students at the Colorado Center for the Blind.

The accident happened Friday morning at a bus stop at Mineral and Utica in Littleton. CBS4's Shaun Boyd talked to the two blind women still in the hospital.

Carrissa Ubersox recalled the moments after the accident, lying by the bus stop in pain and scared when a Good Samaritan approached.

"There was one woman who said, 'Keep talking to me honey, I'll wait with you until the ambulance gets here.' And I want her to know I appreciated that more than anything," Ubersox said.

Ubersox, Georgie Sydnor and Dave Nanney were waiting for a bus to take them to a holiday party at the Colorado Center for the Blind when the SUV slid on ice and crashed into them. Nanney died.

"I'm sad I lost one of my best friends," Ubersox said.

Losing her site was hard enough. In Nanney, Ubersox says she found strength -- a strength she and Sydnor need more than ever now.

"I'm going to go home for a little bit and get better. And then I know when I get back I'm going to have everyone at CCB support me. So it's going to be okay, like I have all of them to lean on," Sydnor said.

Sydnor says Nanney was supposed play Santa this week at the school. It's a role that she says was fitting.

"He was one of those really giving people," Sydnor said. "I'm just sort of going to keep telling myself it's going to be hard no matter what -- what I'm going through is going to be hard."

"I know he would want me to keep going and he would want me to succeed, so that's what I'm going to do for Dave," Ubersox said.

Ubersox suffered injuries to knee, eye and neck. Sydnor has a broken wrist, pelvis and tooth.