Australian Sinead Curry involved in Italian FlixBus crash and is offered $16 ... trends now
An Australian holidaymaker was forced to turn to social media to issue a desperate plea for help after being left wounded and stranded following a fatal bus crash in southern Italy.
Aussie actress Sinead Curry, who has starred in TV shows such as The Haunting of Nancy Drew, iZombie and DC's Legends of Tomorrow, said that nine hours after the crash the European bus company only offered her a $16 meal voucher for the inconvenience.
Ms Curry and partner Salma Salah, both from Sydney, boarded the FlixBus in the city of Bari on Saturday night (AEST) for the long trip to the northern city of Bologna with a transfer in Rome.
However, two hours into the journey Ms Curry says the 'bus hit something'.
'We were all asleep, it went airborne and spun around a bunch of times,' she said in a TikTok video posted on Sunday, which showed her in hospital wearing a neck brace.
Ms Curry said the bus was 'flung around like in a blender' before landing down by an embankment, which she believed was 'on the other side of the road'.
Sydneysider Sinead Curry (pictured) and partner Salma Salah were caught up in fatal bus crash in southern Italy
'Several cars then hit the bus moving the bus closer and closer to the side of the road,' Ms Curry says in the video.
Italian and German media reported the bus crash happened near the town of Avellino, approximately 50 kilometres east of the south-west city of Naples.
Five cars were also involved in the incident and local emergency services were quoted as saying the 'lifeless body of a man was found' along with 14 people suffering injuries.
Ms Curry said there were 38 people on the bus, including a third Australian woman named 'Caity', who suffered a broken collarbone.
After Ms Curry was discharged from hospital, where despite fearing her nose was broken she was assured it was not, Ms Curry made another video outlining how she felt abandoned by the bus company.
'FlixBus none of your numbers are working,' a tearful Ms Curry implored.
'They ring out and they hang up on us. We cannot get
