Los Angeles CA : Mom shields 12-day-old baby in deadly California bus crash in wednesday about 2.15 a.m May 22 2014.

A 12-day-old 'miracle' baby survived a deadly crash early Wednesday that claimed the lives of four people after her mother shielded the newborn in her arms.

Ana Perez, the mom, said two passengers next to her died. She was breast-feeding her daughter at the time of the crash.

"The driver was trying to avoid it, but it was too late," she told the station. The bus, which was travelling from El Paso, Texas, to Los Angeles, struck a load of metal pipes scattered across a dark highway west of Blythe, Calif., at about 2:15 a.m.

Only moments before the crash, the pipes tumbled from a flatbed truck that jackknifed after drifting into the dirt median on Interstate 10, the main road linking Southern California and Arizona, the California Highway Patrol said.

After the bus struck the pipes on the remote stretch of desert roadway, it slid down an embankment and overturned. In addition to the four dead, at least seven passengers were seriously injured, officials said.

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Mom shields 12-day-old baby in deadly California bus crash