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Atlanta Injury Attorneys: Thomson School Bus Driver Talks About Accident Where Child Was Struck
via WJBF News Thomson School Bus Driver Talks About Accident Where Child Was Struck.
A third-grade student in McDuffie County suffered critical injuries when he was struck by a pickup truck while trying to board a school bus. Georgia State Patrol Trooper Willie Ramsey said 8-year-old Cassius Walker was hit Tuesday morning on Mesena Road. The Augusta Chronicle reported that Walker was listed in critical condition at the Medical College of Georgia Hospital. He attends Thomson Elementary School. Almost three dozen students on the bus at the time met with counselors and clergy at Thomson High School after the accident. It’s a Tuesday morning accident that McDuffie County school bus driver Jessie Ivey says he’ll never forget. Jessie Ivey, school bus driver: “They mean alot to me, that’s why I’ve been driving. I love my kids.” Georgia State Patrol investigators say that Ivey was picking up a 3rd grade Thomson Elementary School student, Cassius Walker, for school. Authorities say, as the boy crossed the street away from his house along the 1300 block of Mesena Road ,he was hit by a gray pickup truck.
Ivey: “From where he was laying at, he had to came down the road…he was 40, 50 feet down the road.”
Ivey tells us and investigators that his stop sign was out and visible.
Ivey: “My amber light is always pulled out, then I put out my door stop sign…come on.”
There were about 35 kids on the bus at the time of the incident. According to Jim LeBrun, McDuffie County Superintendent of Schools, those students were given the opportunity to get counseling and go home for the day. Folks living along Mesena Road say they knew this day was coming. Thomson resident: “On our minds…we always think that every day that somebody is going to wind up getting hurt when they get on this road ’cause people speed and don’t care. We have people race down this road and everything.” Ivey says he’s been driving for 34 years and this is the first time he faced something like this unfortunate incident. He offers this advice for drivers…
Jessie Ivey: “They should look out for the bus in any other road. It ain’t got to be Mesena Road. When you see a big yellow bus you can’t miss it.”
As of early Wednesday morning, the child was still in critical condition at MCG. The driver of the pickup, Wayman Brown, has been questioned by officers. Georgia State Patrol’s Specialized Reconstructive Crash Team is handling the investigation.
The Atlanta injury lawyers at Link & Smith, P.C. extend their sympathy to anybody involved or affected by this wreck. Claims involving wrecks like this need to be handled by experienced Georgia accident attorneys familiar with complicated insurance issues and Georgia personal injury law that often arise in such a case.
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