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Richardson High School Student Dies Jumping Off School Bus
Posted on Mar 18, 2010
In a strange and tragic Dallas school bus accident, a 15-year-old girl was killed when she jumped from a moving bus. Richardson Police Investigator Jonathan Wakefield said that the girl jumped from the bus after an altercation with several boys and landed under the rear wheels of the school bus. At the time of the TX bus accident, the vehicle was traveling down West Spring Valley Road between Richardson and Dallas.
The Texas school bus accident took place in Wednesday afternoon, February 17, when the bus was dropping students off after school at J.J Pearce High School in Richardson. Two male students began to fight and the bus driver demanded that both leave the bus. A few minutes after the altercation, 15-year-old Anquanete Patterson walked to the front of the bus and demanded to be let off. When the bus driver did not respond, the girl used the door lever herself and jumped off of the moving bus. Police are not sure why the girl demanded to be let off of the bus or whether she was involved with the fight between the two other students.
After the Dallas bus accident took place, another driver stopped and administered CPR to the injured girl while another bystander called 911. By the time emergency responders arrived, the girl was dead. The bus remained on the side of the road as investigators examined the scene of the TX bus accident.
A spokesperson for Dallas County Schools told reporters that school bus drivers are trained to stop the bus in the event of a fight – not let the students off before their stops. She also said that mechanics were being consulted regarding how the school bus door opened so easily while the bus was in motion.
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