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Boy, 8, charged for bus crash
23/05/2006 12:57 - (SA)
New York - An eight-year-old boy was arrested on homicide charges after he sneaked onto an empty school bus, which later rolled forward and fatally struck a second-grader, said police on Tuesday.
Officer Doris Garcia said the boy was to be charged with criminally negligent homicide. She said that police were withholding his name because of his age.
Amber Sadiq was crossing the street near her school when the bus in the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Crown Heights struck her. Garcia said that police believed the boy was alone on the bus.
Detective Theresa Farello said that investigators believed the driver got off the bus and secured it, but the boy might have got inside through the back door, an emergency exit that could not be locked, and caused the bus to move.
A 12-year-old Kassandra Polanco, who saw the bus bearing down on the girl, said: "She tried to run, but the garbage can was in the way."
Deli worker Sam Ahmad said he saw the girl under the bus and called the emergency services. He said he and about a dozen other men tried to lift the yellow bus to free her, but it was too heavy.
Police said the girl was eight-years-old and the department of education said she was seven.
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