Martin Miller was enjoying the slow-tempo trap beat of Don Trip and Street Symphony's "Say Less" when he heard a loud boom, and he was launched from his bus seat. "It happened so fast," Miller, 41, told the Chicago Sun-Times Thursday morning. "I'm literally thrown up in the air ... sparks were flying ... we smelled smoke and I'm thinking [the bus] is about to catch fire.""It was a scary situation." Miller and his girlfriend were among a few passengers who braced for the worst-case scenario. "I thought we were gonna die," Miller said.Miller was one of 10 CTA bus passengers — and 13 people overall — hurt in the fatal three-vehicle crash involving a stolen Jeep at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the Washington Park neighborhood. Moments later Miller jumped up and began checking on the bus driver and other passengers, some of whom were screaming or crying. "I'm trying to make sure everybody's breathing," Miller, who was hospitalized with injuries to the right side of his body, said. "We got hit hard." Among the riders Miller was trying to console was Latonya Walls and her 9-year-old daughter, who were on their way back from Walls' mother's house when the crash happened."My baby started screaming, and I was just trying to grab her," Walls, 32, told the Sun-Times. "I just closed my eyes because I didn’t know if the bus was gonna flip over.""We didn’t even think that we were gonna make it off the bus," Walls added. Around 7 p.m., officers noticed a stolen white 2014 Jeep Grand Cherokee traveling north at a "high rate of speed" in the 6800 block of South State Street and followed it to the 6000 block of South State Street, where it ran a red light, according to Chicago police and a traffic crash report obtained by the Sun-Times.The Jeep then crashed into a black 2006 Acura RLX that was westbound on 60th Street, "legally" crossing through the intersection on a green light, before "veering off" and crashing "head-on" into the southbound CTA #59 bus that was stopped at the red light at 60th Street, the report said. A 61-year-old woman behind the wheel of the Acura was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 7:28 p.m., according to the report, and the Cook County medical examiner's office. Her name was not released. One person was killed and at least 13 others were injured in a multi-vehicle crash involving a CTA bus Nov. 20, 2024 on the South Side.Chicago Fire Department After the impact, several passengers spotted sparks flying outside near the front of the bus, which began to fill with smoke as one of the vehicles became trapped underneath the bus, the report said. "I thought the bus was gonna blow up," Miller said. Before coming to a stop in a grassy area, the bus was pushed into a light pole, "dislodging" it and causing it to fall over into the street, according to the traffic report. Miller and nine others on the CTA bus, including its 59-year-old driver, were all taken to area hospitals with injuries not considered life threatening, officials said. The bus driver, of Harvey, declined to comment when reached by the Sun-Times. According to the report, four people in the Jeep tried to run away after the wreck but only three of them, a 17-year-old boy, and two men aged 27 and 28, were taken into custody and hospitalized at Stroger Hospital, Provident Hospital and the University of Chicago Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. Police recovered four guns from the Jeep, police said.Walls was taken to St. Bernard Hospital with injuries to her back and neck. Her daughter had a swollen ankle and hurt her face. Walls has taken the bus for about two years but says she will find another way to get around. Latonya Walls, who was a witness in a CTA bus crash, stands outside her home on the South Side, Thursday, Nov. 21, 2024.Timothy Hiatt/For the Sun-Times "I was looking into getting a car," Walls said. "I'm actually scared to get on the bus now."But Miller, who is a lifelong bus rider, said the crash won’t deter him from continuing to commute. "I can’t really blame CTA, stuff like that happens all the time [and] I feel like the bus driver was doing his job," Miller said. "I'm not scared. ... I gotta get home, gotta get to work." Despite his lack of fear, Miller became emotional. "Somebody lost their life over a car," Miller said, his voice cracking. "Someone died in that situation we was in. ... That could’ve been us."