A school bus driver in Detroit was charged in connection with the car accident that led to death of an autistic teen who was struck after getting off her carrier. The woman allegedly did not follow protocol put in place to alert ongoing traffic while a child is exiting the bus, causing the child to be fatally hit.
According to a press release, Debra White, an employee at ABC Student Transportation, has been charged with Second-Degree Child Abuse and Failure to Stop at the Scene Resulting in Death by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office on Sunday, April 10, the same day the teen died of his injuries.
It is alleged she failed to activate the bus’s stop sign and lights when she allowed 13-year-old Zyair Harris to exit her vehicle.
The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said the 65-year-old was contracted to carry students to and from their public schools in Detroit. While completing a drop on one of her routes on Wednesday, April 6, around 4:40 p.m., she stopped her school bus outside the entrance of an apartment, where one student, the victim Harris, lived.
He was then struck by oncoming traffic near Nevada and Healy streets as he left the bus. Harris succumbed to his injuries four days later at Children’s Hospital of Michigan in Detroit.
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