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jimmygreen717 t1_iy7yvru wrote

A while back, a girl was run over by a bus wearing a hood and listening to music with earbuds, so she couldn't see or hear the school bus. Since then, the bus monitors check around and under the busses before they leave, and the busses have announcements when they pull away

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Yarnballprincess22 t1_iy7zrl9 wrote

They’ve been checking under the busses before that incident. It’s a safety precaution to make sure there aren’t any children under the bus.

My uncle was the resource officer working at the school the time of the incident you mentioned. It was a really bad time for him - he had to stand with her body while waiting for someone to show up with something to cover her up AND had to go tell her mother she was killed. It was also the beginning of the school day, so his job was to stand with her body and try to prevent the other students from seeing her… she was decapitated.

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LuLu31 t1_iy8dpi3 wrote

My coworker was dropping his kids off at school when that happened and saw stuff no one ever should see. When he got to work he was shook.

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knoeKNAME t1_iy8orvh wrote

You wouldn’t have seen me at work that day.

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Emotional-Simple-478 t1_iy7zmd7 wrote

If you're talking about the girl in warwick she was crossing the street not paying attention. The bus monitor would have been useless in that situation.

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perkdoeswork t1_iy9f3vt wrote

She was in my grade when that happened, it was a horrible day and most honestly I wish they cancelled classes that day.

The worst part about it was the didn’t release the name until the end of the day (it was a Friday) and since she wasn’t a popular student, most kids didn’t really care too much which was sad. Kim was a nice person

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jordy_pordy10 OP t1_iy7yyp9 wrote

Oh wow that’s awful. Understandable why they do that then.

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jdmess401 t1_iy93vy8 wrote

Wasn’t that a young girl killed by a RIPTA near Pilgrim HS? I didn’t think it was a school bus. Or am I thinking of a different incident?

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Emotional-Simple-478 t1_iycphyu wrote

The incident you're thinking of involved a big yellow school bus, not a ripta one

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jdmess401 t1_iycs5lg wrote

Yeah, I was confusing the Pilgrim student hit by the bus and the little girl hit by the RIPTA in Providence a few years later.

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Emotional-Simple-478 t1_iycso6e wrote

I didn't even know about the providence incident. I live in warwick so I knew about the school bus thing

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