She watched her brother get crushed to death in Wednesday’s tragic school bus accident in Queens — and she almost died herself.
“All I saw was his legs,” the still-stunned big sister of tragic Far Rockaway bus victim Camron Brown, 7, told The Post of the moment her brother was fatally pinned against the back of a yellow bus on Gipson Street.
Paris, 9, said her brother had just stepped off the bus that had picked them up at PS 43 and were walking the length of that bus toward a red school van that was to take them to them home a half-mile away.
Suddenly, the van lurched forward, crushing the second grader, beloved by his family as “Nino.”
Police confirmed Thursday that the accident happened when the van, a 1998 Ford, suddenly accelerated into the boy. The driver told police he had hit the gas pedal instead of the brakes, police said.
“The van started driving out of nowhere and hit my brother,” the girl recalled, noting that she was only a few steps behind him. “And it almost crashed into me.”
Outraged family members said Thursday they had no idea that the bus company taking the kids to and from school, the Queens-based Elmer & Jennifer Transportation, was making the children transfer from a bus to a van — unescorted by an adult — at any point in the trip.
Paris said Thursday that she and Camron were often required to switch vehicles during their trip home from school.
“He wasn’t supposed to be getting transferred to a van,” said the family’s eldest sibling, Fantasia, 19. “I don’t know why they went from the school bus to the van.”
Added an aunt, Maureen Brown, 60, “They should be investigated to see how they do business because this is not right. First of all, there is no matron. Someone should have been escorting the kids from the bus. And they never should be transferring to another van.”
Attempts to reach reps at the company on Thursday were not successful.
As of Thursday, no charges had been filed against the van’s 22-year-old driver, who stayed at the scene.
Additional reporting by Stephanie Pagones and Laura Italiano