For the 5th time in 3 days, a driver strikes the children at a bus stop

TAMPA, Fla. – Seven people were taken to hospital Thursday after a car struck students at a school bus stop in Tampa, police said. It was at least the fifth time in three days that children were injured or worse at a bus stop.

Other accidents occurred in Mississippi, Indiana and a second city in Florida; In another incident on Thursday, a second-year student was found dead by the roadside near his home after being hit by a slow-speed vehicle.

In the Tampa crash, witnesses said that a high-speed Ford escort in a residential area had hit several pedestrians on the street side, said Tampa Police spokesman Eddy Durkin. The police later stated that it was not clear if the driver was driving too fast.

The images of the scene show scattered backpacks on the shoulder.

Two adults and five children – two seriously injured were taken to the hospital, said Durkin. A child is in critical condition. None of the injuries are considered life-threatening, he said. Three of the children are 6 years old, one is 9 years old and the oldest is 12 years old.

The 47-year-old man who was driving and who remained at the scene was not charged, officials said.

Students attended a mixed primary / college school about 16 or 17 blocks away – a five-minute drive away – from the bus stop, fire officials said at WFLA.

A fire truck responding to the scene of the accident crashed en route and two of the first responders were taken to a hospital, said a Tampa Fire Rescue representative at the WFLA.

In central Pennsylvania, authorities have reported that a 7-year-old boy from Franklin's suburbs on Thursday morning was found dead at a bus stop.

At first, the authorities thought that a vehicle having passed over him might have touched him and the driver ran away, but then they claimed that they had dismissed him.

"The evidence showed that the child had been crushed at a slow speed," said the state patrol on the troupe G.'s twitter wire. "A search warrant was obtained for a vehicle that was in the area at the time. The driver was questioned.

"The bus driver en route arrived at the stop, discovering the situation, contacted the 911 service and stayed on the scene until the first responders arrived," said on Facebook Superintendent of the Tyrone Area School District.

Thursday's incident comes two days after the murder of a female driver of a 9-year-old girl and her two brothers who were crossing the street to catch a school bus in rural Indiana, the police said. police.

Alivia Stahl attempted to protect her younger brothers when they were beaten, said her uncle at WRTV in Indianapolis. Another student was flown to a Fort Wayne hospital.

A woman was arrested and charged with three counts of reckless homicide related to death. She was released on bail of $ 15,000.

On Wednesday, a kindergarten child was injured crossing the street to board a school bus in Tallahassee, Florida, when a 19-year-old man hit the child while he was walking. He had realized too late that the bus had been stopped and his crossing arm lengthened, police said to WCTV.

The driver received two traffic citations, reported the station. The boy is at home and is doing well, his family told WCTV.

Also on Wednesday, a 22-year-old man from Marietta, Mississippi, was charged with aggravated assault after he fatally hit a child on a highway north of Tupelo, said Mississippi Patrol Captain Johnny Poulos.

The man, who was driving a van, hit a 9-year-old boy as the boy crossed the road to get on a school bus, police said. His bond was set at $ 10,000.

From 2006 to 2015, 1,313 people were killed in school-related accidents, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The majority of those killed were occupants of other vehicles, while about 102 casualties were classified as pedestrians of school age, the agency said.

Sixty-four percent of the children killed were stuck in a bus or bus vehicle, while 36 percent were hit by another vehicle, the paper said.