A Maine mother watched in horror as a school bus dragged her 6-year-old boy nearly two-football field’s worth of distance across a street last Thursday afternoon.
On Thursday, May 12, in Buxton, Maine, a kindergartner’s backpack was caught in a school bus door as he attempted to leave his bus and greet his mother, the Associated Press reported. The 6-year-old boy, who was positioned outside of the bus, was dragged about 575 feet across Rachel’s Way to Pinder Road as the bus drove off with the child hanging outside.
The boy’s mother chased after her child moments after the bus drove off.
“I was screaming at the top of my lungs,” Athena Lavigne, the Kindergartner’s mother, told WGME-TV reporters. “I just wanted him to stop. I didn’t think he was going to stop. I thought he was going to just keep driving. It felt like forever.”
School officials told WGME-TV that the driver stopped after seeing the mother.
The boy was wearing shorts, and sneakers and had little clothing protection, the AP said. He suffered significant road rash and bruising, the boy was taken to a Maine hospital for treatment.
Photos of the child’s injuries can be viewed here.
The Maine school district told the AP the 63-year-old bus driver is relatively new and has since been placed on administrative leave.
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