Akron school bus driver killed while saving 10-year-old girl

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Columbus {Ohio} Dispatch

By Mark Gillispie Associated Press • Tuesday September 16, 2014 2:16 PM

AKRON — An Ohio school bus driver is being hailed as a hero after tossing a child out of the way of a rolling bus today before the vehicle rolled over the driver herself and she was killed.

“She sacrificed her own life to save the life of this 10-year-old girl,” said Akron police Lt. Rick Edwards.

Edwards said the bus pulled up beside Middlebury Academy about 8:10 a.m. when the driver asked the students to perform routine evacuation drills. The students, about 40 ranging from kindergartners to eighth-graders, first exited the bus at the front and lined up single file on the sidewalk as instructed. They then got back on the bus and exited the rear emergency exit, Edwards said.

The 10-year-old girl, the last to exit, was climbing out the back of the bus when the vehicle started rolling backward, Edwards said. The driver threw the girl onto a lawn then the bus rolled over the driver.

Read more: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2014/09/16/0916-Akron-school-bus-driver-killed-during-safety-drill.html

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Would I have done that?

[Omaha Steve]

1. K&R!

[JimDandy]

2. I'm sure the girl's parents are very grateful to her for saving their child.

I imagine the dead bus driver will be found responsible for her own death, though, if the investigation shows she didn't set the parking brake or put the bus in park.

[greatlaurel]

3. Here's a better link than to the right wing Columbus Disgrace

http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/driver-killed-when-bus-rolls-over-her-during-safety-drill-with-akron-charter-school-students-1.523159

The Disgrace should get no page hits from DU, if at all possible.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Thank you for the link.

I try to go with the local newspaper, but the browser I have at work wasn't displaying that page properly. It's no better this morning.

[greatlaurel]

4. My condolences to the driver's family. She is a hero for saving the little girl.

[marble falls]

5. No doubt in my mind: you'd have saved the little girl. No doubt, no doubt at all.

[riverwalker]

6. Laura Zborowski

age 51. She is a hero, we should know her name.

[love_katz]

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