Brisbane couple arrive home after surviving bus crash in Peru

Stephanie and Jason Rowe arrived back in Brisbane on Saturday nearly two weeks after the bus they were on plummeted down a hill rolling three times before coming to rest on the banks of the Amazon River.

Ms Rowe said the pair were happy to be home after surviving the “carnage” of the crash and all that followed in an interview with 9 News at Brisbane Airport.

Ms Rowe said the media coverage of their ordeal helped get them home, speeding up the process and they can now put the incident behind them.

“It helped us get home, the Australian embassy stepped up,” she said.

She tearfully said it was a “pretty massive one” to be home and see the people they loved.

The crash happened early into the tour according to Mr Rowe who said he believed the driver may have been at fault.

“We were going on a four-day Amazon tour in Peru,” Jason said. “On day one, we figured our driver must have fallen asleep behind the wheel and drove off a cliff.”

Everyone on board survived the crash with the injured survivors having to climb back up the embankment to get rescued, including Mr Rowe who had been knocked unconscious for over 20 minutes.

Ms Rowe described the accident and her husband’s injury, while stuck in Peru in an interview with 9News.

“I’m going, ‘we’re dead, we’re not coming back, this is how I die, this is how we all die’,” she said.

“He (Mr Rowe) flew into the windscreen and got knocked out and he was out for about 25 minutes.

“There’s people all over the ground, people had broken their arms, people were going into shock.”

The couple were then stuck in Peru, due to Visa issues unable to get adequate health care, when their story first came to light.

“Here we are waiting, in severe pain,” Mrs Rowe said.

“We have no idea what’s wrong with us. We are in Lima, praying that someone will do something so that we can get home.”