Aya Munda, a 32-year-old from Kabul, was traveling to her mother’s village outside her native country of Kabul when she began hearing the sounds of people shouting. Her immediate reaction was to jump over her back seat in a panic, and that’s when the car began moving.

Mundy began to take a closer look at herself in the mirror and realized she was in the middle of the road.

She got into the passenger side of the speeding truck and tried to get out, but the tires were spinning and she was stuck. Another truck approached the vehicle and pulled her out. In one moment, Munda says, “my life changed.”

Aya was taken to Peshawar hospital and the doctors there treated her injuries and determined she had broken both hips. She was airlifted into Peshawar, where she has remained, despite having spent a month alone in a hospital bed.

Her mother, Amira, says she thinks Aya’s story is typical. She believes there is a commonality in some parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan, where the majority of the victims are women and their sons.

A number of recent cases with similar injuries have led her to wonder if the incidents in Peshawar are part of an ongoing trend.

“Sometimes the injured are in their homes and they just do not want to be bothered,” she says. “We hear about cases like that too and it makes us very distressed.”

Mundy says she did not go to the hospital voluntarily. Her family came to pay their respects to her.

“I thought I should pay for the blood, my family paid for it, so why should I not do it because it’s their funeral?” she says.

She says she thought at least the car might take her home.

“In case they had to take me somewhere and I hadn’t said anything, they would tell me when the ambulance had gone,” she says.

Mundy says her father, a civil servant, paid the hospital bill when he realized the vehicle still needed repair. Munda’s mother and mother-in-law were the first ones to come to pay respects.

Today, the family has three children.

Despite her family’s best efforts, Munda says she wants to leave Afghanistan. Her dream is to have her children grow up peacefully and live in a place free of conflict.

“I am not