Must Read: Survivor of biggest fatal vehicle accident in U.S. history - which left 32 dead - comes forward to tell his story 50 years later

A 70-year-old man who survived the deadliest vehicle accident in U.S. history spoke to the press for the first time since a train rammed into a bus full of Mexican laborers in 1963.
After spending two months in the hospital, Isidro Hernandez Tovar, then 19, returned to his home in Jalisco, Mexico and put the scarring day behind him.
Tovar only came forward after reading an article in the Monterey Heraldlast week about Salvador Flores Barragan - the man believed to be the sole-survivor of the crash.
So he called up the Heraldand said: 'I'm also a survivor'.
Tovar was in the U.S. working in the Bracero program when the crash happened.
The Bracero program was establed in 1942 and ran until 1964, bringing some 5 million foreign workers to the country to supplement labor shortages caused by World War II - many of them Mexican nationals.
Tovar says he had to pay 700 pesos to sign up for the program, a fee he was only able to afford once starting work in California.
'Frankly, they treated you like a little animal, they sent you from here to there,' he said. '(The employers) were the ones who did everything. They would tell you to either go to Coachella, the Imperial Valley or Salinas. Three of us from my town came to Salinas.'
He says he entered the program with three others from his hometown and they were all stationed at a celery farm near Chualar.
It was after a day of cutting and bagging celery that the workers were boarded onto a bus to be shuttled back to their work camp.
The workers sat on four boards, two in the middle and two on the sides of the bus. Once everyone was seated the bus began to move, but Tovar had gotten up to go to the front of the bus.
He left a bag tied to the table near the front of the vehicle, and therefore escaped the direct hit of a train that hit the back of the bus.
He says he didn't hear the train whistle, but rememebrs feeling the impact.
When he came to, there were already bodies on the ground covered in orange blankets and then he passed out again.
When he woke up again, he started looking for his friend Sixto Robles Urzua but couldn't find him.
'I walked to the bodies, uncovered the tarps, saw two or three bodies, but I didn't recognize any of them. They were completely disfigured. I kept walking and when I couldn't walk anymore, I sat by the edge of the field.
Twenty-eight people died at the scene and four later at the hospital in what the National Safety Council has described as the biggest fatal vehicle accident in U.S. history.
Tovar was taken to Carmel Hospital, where a woman volunteered to help write his family at home.
'She told my mom that I was OK, not to be worried. I was all banged up, my shoulderblade was broken, but I could walk,' Tovar recalls.
After spending two months in the hospital, Tovar returned home to Mexico and spent the next several years traveling into Mexico City for interviews with insurance companies about a settlement. In 1968 he was awarded 92,000 pesos.
'During those visits, I used to see some of the remaining survivors, the widows and the mothers,' he said. 'After we got the money, I lost track of everybody. I've always thought about the event, but I lost touch.'
Tovar revisted that dark day two years ago though when he returned to site of the crash and found nothing - no marker to remember the lost lives.