Child, 13, hit by school bus in Forest Grove
FOREST GROVE, Ore. – A 13-year-old child was hit by a school bus in Forest Grove Wednesday morning, police said.
The child is expected to live.
Police said the child was crossing Pacific Avenue in a crosswalk when they were hit at around 8:40 a.m. The school bus was turning onto Pacific Avenue from Mountain View Lane.
The driver, 57-year-old Kenneth Kemper, did not see the child until the crash.
The child was taken to a hospital in an ambulance with their parents.
Kemper cooperated with police after the crash. Police said there were 20 children on the bus at the time. No one else was hurt.
Police issued Kemper a citation for failing to yield to a pedestrian.
Why, that could have KILLED the child! Â Time to outlaw busses! Â Or at least limit the number of seats a bus can have to 10, unless the military or police are driving the bus, then it's OK.
Only crime here was "failing to yield" to a child? Whoa there, Forest Grove law enforcement - it is called assault. An ASSAULT is what happened to this child.Â
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So how does charging the adult who assaulted this child with failing to yield adequately address the severity of the criminal action here? Including neglient driving - of the highest order.Â
Just sad. Drivers need to be vigilant but pedestrians must take some responsibility for their safety. Children need to be taught to recognize some everyday dangers. Pedestrians getting struck by vehicles seems to be a little to common.
i saw two juvie looking kids dashing across 82nd yesterday against the don't walk signal. some kids lose any intelligencee they've had around that age. not saying this is the case here
Most buses have a lot of big mirrors for "safety" that tend to hide pedestrians in the cross walk. the drivers get a workout just trying to see around those in your face mirrors.
"Police said the child was crossing Pacific Avenue in a crosswalk when they were hit..."Â Â Weird transition from one child to multiple.
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"The child was taken to a hospital in an ambulance with their parents."Â And again. Consider replacing 'they'Â and 'their' with 'he or she'.
"... the child was crossing Pacific Avenue in a crosswalk when they were hit at around 8:40 a.m."Â
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I know you are trying to protect the identity of the child, but to pluralize the child and say there was more than one is grammatically erring. Couldn't the writer say it thus - "...the child was crossing Pacific Avenue in a crosswalk with the child was hit at around 8:40 a.m." A little redundant, yes, but more definitely more correct.Â
read your post again...you make mistakes also... "the child was crossing Pacific Avenue in a crosswalk with the child" A child with a child? kind of the pot calling the kettle black, wouldn't you say?
 @flyingtime I caught it afterwards, but didn't correct it. I just find it odd that when a singular person is being mentioned, the "multiple" person is used so as to not "identify" the child in any way, shape or form.
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But then again - you made a mistake as well: "read your post again.." should be: Read your post again.
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We all do it, but the blatant PC grammar is pathetic.
 @washcomom Sorry, didn't mean to step on your lines. Great minds, eh? ;-}
 @HenryBowman I think we just get tired of the lack of proper grammar usage in a news forum that should really have better use of the language. No wonder our society has lost IQ points!  We can't produce any great journalists anymore because of all the computerized spell checkers and PC garbage that has come about!Â
@HenryBowman @washcomom You could also read it as child 13 hit by bus. My first glance at it was the 13th child that had been hit by a bus. Anyway the person that wrote this must need a breath of fresh air. We all have our days don't we
@HenryBowman @washcomom   Pathetic that our tax dollars are paying for this "lack of education".
 @wondering  @HenryBowman It's okay. You're both wrong, anyway.