In 1925 at the age of 18, a young Frida Kahlo had boarded a bus heading to Coyoacan with her friend, Alejandro Gomez Arias, after a long day of college classes. She had enrolled in college three years prior in 1922 with the goal of pursuing a career in medicine. Frida Kahlo had wanted to be in that specific field since she was a young child; most likely after she had contracted polio, which had left her with a crooked left foot. Her goals and dreams changed in a blink of an eye, though, as the bus rounded the corner and crashed at very high speeds into an oncoming electric trolley car. She is quoted saying, “The streetcar crushed the bus against the street corner… It was a strange crash, not violent but dull and slow, and it injured everyone, me much more seriously.” Frida had suffered many serious injuries that day, including a broken spinal column, ribs, collarbone, and pelvis. Many of these injuries were caused by a long metal rod that tore through her midsection. These injuries caused Frida to stay at the Red Cross Hospital. As she stayed there, she began to paint. Prior to this instance, she had not painted professionally and only had a few art lessons from a man named Fernando Fernandez. Her time in the hospital cultured her talent for painting. Four years later in 1929, Frida created a painting called, The Bus. While the painting has the intention of showing the different classes in Mexican society, it also shows Frida’s view before the bus accident on that day in 1925.