Boy Injured at School Bus Stop

GILMER – A young Hopkins County second grader has been released from a Dallas hospital after he was hit by a pickup as he had left a school bus. The accident happened shortly after 3:15 Friday afternoon on Highway 11 east at County Road 2331 east of Como-Pickton.

State Trooper Jean Dark says the initial investigation shows the 7 year old boy had exited the bus and was standing on the shoulder of the road. The bus was unloading at the time of the incident with several vehicles stopped behind it. A pickup truck driven by a lone sixteen-year-old male driver came upon the group of stopped vehicles and had to take evasive action to the right to avoid colliding with one of the vehicles. The teen drove the pickup on the shoulder of the road and hit the child. There were no other injuries reported and the school bus was not struck by the pickup.