Student Killed after Leaving School Bus
Posted/updated on: January 8, 2011 at 5:53 am
KAUFMAN (AP) — A Texas Highway Patrol spokesman says a 7-year-old boy died when he was hit by a pickup truck after exiting his school bus on a rural state highway north of Kaufman.
Spokesman Lonny Haschel says the pickup driver, Salvador Hernandez, 47, of Terrell, was arrested and charged with involuntary manslaughter. Hernandez was taken to Kaufman County jail.
Haschel says the Kaufman school district bus was stopped facing north on State Highway 34 with all of its red lights activated and its red stop arm displayed when Hernandez – traveling in the southbound lane – failed to stop. The boy was struck after crossing in front of the bus. The child’s name has not been released.
