Woman breaks her femur after falling inside a bus in Ribeirão Preto, SP A 65-year-old woman had to be hospitalized after breaking her femur after falling inside a public transport bus in Ribeirão Preto (SP). The case happened on Wednesday (8), around 4:30 pm, when Maria do Carmo Fuentes had just gone through the roulette wheel. According to her, the driver accelerated and she lost her balance. The bus runs on line 507 from Planalto Verde. "When I passed the turnstile, he accelerated at once and I fell hard. Then, he cut my head and broke my femur. He had to stop the ambulance and go there to carry me." ?Click here to follow the g1 Ribeirão e Franca channel on WhatsApp Maria do Carmo took the bus on Avenida Dom Pedro I. After the fall, she was rescued by a team from the Mobile Emergency Care Service (Samu) and taken to an Emergency Care Unit (UPA). MORE Maria do Carmo Fuentes, 65, broke her femur after losing her balance inside a bus and falling Personal archive To EPTV, a TV Globo affiliate, the Consórcio Pró-Urbano, responsible for public transport in the city, confirmed the accident, but denied any sudden braking or jolt and said it evaluated the images from security cameras from inside the bus. The contents, however, were not disclosed and will only be handed over to the police. The company said, in a statement, that the victim "apparently imagined that there was some support for his back right after the turnstile and, when trying to support himself, he ended up falling." When contacted by the reporter, Santa Casa reported that it is investigating the information on the case. See more news from the region on g1 Ribeirão Preto and Franca VIDEOS: Everything about Ribeirão Preto, Franca and the region