Personal Injury Law

Missouri School Bus Injury Lawyer: St. Louis School Bus Driver Fired After Leaving 4-year-old in Bus

By Ryan Bradley, Esq.

While our Missouri personal injury law firm typically restricts this blog to cases involving serious personal injury or death, this is a story that could have turned tragic. Luckily, no injuries were reported.

A St. Louis school bus driver has been fired after the district said she violated school policy in failing to check her bus after dropping off students. Deanna Anderson, Transportation Director for St. Louis Public Schools, said a four-year-old girl fell asleep and awoke alone on her school bus, parked at the yard.

When she was discovered by another driver, the child was taken to her classroom at Wilkinson Early Childhood Center. However, the bus driver did not tell the teachers nor school administrators why the child was more than an hour late.

This story is eerily similar to another St. Louis, Missouri incident where a child was left near Washington University Medical School in a car and subsequently died from heat exhaustion.

Full post as published by Missouri Accident Lawyer Blog on March 05, 2008 (boomark / email).