Decedent, a 14-year-old middle school student, was killed on Jan. 2, 2006, after exiting a school bus. The bus driver failed to activate the bus’s amber warning lights as the bus approached decedent’s stop and the red warning lights once the bus came to a stop.

Decedent exited the bus and began crossing the street to get to a church parking lot where her aunt/guardian was to have picked her up. She crossed the westbound lane in front of the bus and, as she started to cross into the eastbound lane, was struck by the mirror of an oncoming vehicle. Decedent fell into the middle of the oncoming lane and was in the fetal position when a second oncoming vehicle ran over her. The bus’s warning lights/devices were not activated until two seconds before the second oncoming vehicle ran over the decedent. The decedent died from her injuries shortly after being run over by the second vehicle.

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