17-year-old female student pedestrian seriously injured after she is struck by a car while trying to board her school bus at the intersection of 58th Avenue and 42nd Street near Vero Beach, Florida
Teen hit by vehicle at bus stop in Indian River County.
A motorist who struck a 17-year-old student on 58th Avenue at 6:30 a.m. Thursday has been cited for failing to stop for a school bus, according to Indian River County Sheriff’s spokesman Sgt. Eric Flowers.
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A motorist who struck a 17-year-old student on 58th Avenue at 6:30 a.m. Thursday has been cited for failing to stop for a school bus, according to a Indian River County Sheriff’s spokesman. The bus was stopped and its lights were on and a sign was out when the student was attempting to cross 58th Avenue, at 42nd Street, to get to the bus, police said. Emergency officials said the female student was talking before she was taken to the trauma center at the Lawnwood Regional Medical Center & Heart Institute, Fort Pierce, emergency officials said.
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