It’s a community of modest one-story homes and small children. Chain-link fences keep mily dogs out of the street; in one front yard, a baby swing sways from a tree branch.
Now the four figures were sprawled on the ground. Ruiz said she ran over and performed CPR on one, a little boy, before paramedics arrived.
She knows the mily. David Yancy is a bus mechanic for the public schools, she said. The parents sometimechester adult schools care for her daughter, and their children like to play together.
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Police said the bus was going north on Paladin Drive. It carried 25 students, headed to Lynnhaven Elementary, said Nancy Soscia, a school division spokeswoman.
They photographed items in the Yancys’ yard, including a child’s backpack, a hat and a shoe.
About the same time, a pickup going east on Chester Street swerved around the front of the bus. The truck crossed the yard where the man and children were walking.
Police on Thursday confirmed that a pickup swerved around the front of a stopped school bus and crashed into the four as they walked down their driveway toward the bus stop.
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They said one of the neighbors took her keys to keep her from leaving the scene. She couldn’t walk in a straight line when police asked her to take a sobriety test, they said.
Elisabeth Hulette, 757-222-5097, [email protected]
The Commonwealths Attorney should add four charges of attempted manslaughter, since she tried to kill that Dad and those three kids with that Ford deadly weapon.
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The three children are nice and respectful, neighbors said. They attend Lynnhaven Elementary School.
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She was held without bond and was arraigned today. A bond hearing is scheduled for Monday.
Tim Lasher lives up the street. On his way to work Thursday morning, he stopped near the same intersection. He said he watched as the blue pickup came around the corner.
The records show a reckless-driving charge against her was scheduled to be heard in Virginia Beach General District Court on Wednesday, a day before the crash on Chester Street. In that case, she is accused of driving 57 mph in a 35-mph zone. That hearing was postponed, according to the records.
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Police investigators spent the morning interviewing the bus driver and witnesses. Investigators took measurements and marked the scene with spray paint.
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I am starting to wonder if the severe penalties for DUI serve to punish or, simply generate more money for the state/city because it seems to me that horrible crashes like this are caused by people with one or more DUIs on their record already. They get popped, they pay a fine, serve no jail time, pay the DMV astronomical fees, get their license and viola! Many times they re-offend. Of course, some get caught driving while they are on a suspended license, so the fines, court costs and again, DMV fees increase yet again.
Lasher called 911. A dispatcher asked whether the victims were responsive, so he touched them to check their pulses. The girl made a sound and the boy moved slightly. The ther lay on the ground, injured and stunned, Lasher said.
The law states you cannot pass a school bus loading or unloading, from ANY direction - including crossing ahead at an intersection. Little ones (or even big ones...) can run from anywhere to catch the bus. So it doesnt matter if the safety bar sticks out. The only time you can legally pass a loading/unloading school bus is if the road is divided by something like a grass strip down the center.
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Thursday started quiet and cold in Princess Anne Plaza, neighbors said.
When I turned around, Ruiz said, they were in the air, lling like rag dolls.
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Celia Ruiz was putting her daughter on the school bus Thursday morning when she heard the crash behind her.
Everyones heart goes out to this ther and his children. As a parent of two who ride the bus to school in Chesapeake, this sends a chill up my spine. We can pray for the victims of drunk drivers and ask the Governor to not make access to alcohol any easier, like he just proposed to do today.
If they would go after these offenders like they were a bank robber with a gun or some other crime involving a gun, maybe we would have a lot less than this going on. Up here they post it in the news and it is literally daily that they are catching and letting these folks go with slaps on the wrists or suspended licenses. They do not learn as is the case here and until someone in this country begins to take driving under the influence seriously you will continue to see this happen. Im not saying to ban alcohol, but at least have a more severe repercussion like seizure of assets, [adult school] ATL Wellness Survey: Haven’t We All Had a Little Adderall?? adhd school (0) 2011-12-26 9:12:1 the car that is driven is seized no matter who the owner, lease or loan on the vehicle. There is no reason that the laws cant be a lot more tighter on these folks.
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Sentara spokesman Dale Gauding said one child was taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.
By dusk, the crash scene was cleared and police were gone. Lasher stood in his driveway as he told his story. The temperature dropped and his eyes grew wet.
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I can assure everyone that Virginia Beach Commonwealth Attorney Harvey Bryant and his staff are watching this case like a hawk and will start receiving the evidence either today or by the start of next week. I know the Commonwealth Attorney and can assure you thathis office will relentlessly prosecute this caseand in matters such as this, they are rarely interested in cutting a deal with the defendant. Virginia Beach juries are notoriously tough, too so this ladies options are poor indeed, but then her choices were equally poor.
A blue Ford Ranger pickup coming down Chester Street had run past the bus, chester adult school Va. Beach woman charged after man, children struckoff the pavement and into a front yard across the street – exactly the spot where a ther was walking three mily members to the corner bus stop. The truck hit the mily with a bang that echoed up the street.
Pilot writers Cindy Clayton, Mike Hixenbaugh and Aaron Applegate contributed to this report.
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I pray for the full recovery of those she injured through her stupidity.
He didn’t know what happened. None of them knew what happened. None of them saw it coming, he said.
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By law, you have to stop for the school bus, said Officer Grazia Moyers, a police spokeswoman.
Hofstadler has been convicted of numerous traffic violations since 2003, according to online court records, including driving while intoxicated, speeding, and driving on a revoked license.
Police said today a five-year-old remains in critical condition. In a news release Thursday, they said a 7-year-old was in stable condition and the man and another 7-year-old suffered non-life-threatening injuries.
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All I can do is pray for them, he said.
Counselors remain available for students who are grieving, school division spokeswoman Nancy Soscia said.
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It stopped at Chester Street to pick up more riders. The driver pulled the bus up to the intersection and extended the safety gate, according to police.
Every morning we’re screaming at people because they’re speeding, she said. Now this little boy is fighting for his life.
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With 4 counts of attempted manslaughter!! Get her off the streets for as long as possible. She is not going to learn from probabtion, 30 days in jail, points on her record, suspended license...her record proves she has no regard for the law.
They are just trying to continue on in the aftermath of this tragedy, she said.
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It’s something I don’t ever want to see again in my life, he said.
The school division dispatched counselors to the school Thursday morning and met directly with students who were on the bus and may have witnessed the crash, Soscia said.
Police also said they charged Sandra L. Hofstadler, 43, of the 3200 block of Club House Circle in Virginia Beach with driving under the influence, second offense; reckless passing of a school bus; and three counts of maiming as a result of driving while intoxicated.
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The man and other child were treated at Virginia Beach General.
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Im stunned this happened and angry at the woman for being such an out of control idiot and getting behind the wheel of a vehicle when she knew she was intoxicated. She needs to be locked up. Thats the only way to keep her from driving another vehicle and endangering other lives. Anyone that has a history like hers needs to be kept away from operating any vehicle.
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WAVY did a piece on her wherein they laid out the past history of this chick and lets suffice it to say shes had a troubled past and thats putting it mildly. Im sure no one in her mily appreciates the spotlight of the local media shining their way. Like our kid locked up in Norfolk City Jail-he did wrong and were angry with him for it, but hes still mily. Im sure her mily still cares about her, too.
One child was taken to Sentara Virginia Beach General and later flown to Norfolk General by Nightingale Regional Air Ambulance. That child was expected to be transferred to Children’s Hospital of The King’s Daughters.
Katherine Everett, Lynnhaven Elementary’s principal, visited the scene early and spent much of the day with mily members at the hospital. Teachers and students were shaken by news of the injuries, she said.
Hofstadler declined an interview from jail.
Neighbors who watched the scene unfold said the woman who emerged from the driver’s seat of the pickup was stumbling and disoriented.
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Drivers often speed down Chester Street, using it as a shortcut to avoid traffic lights and snarls at the nearby intersection with Interstate 264, Ruiz said.
Students at Lynnhaven Elementary, where the children attend school, made cards and a banner today to send to the hospital. Meanwhile, school volunteers are preparing meals to share with the mily over the next several weeks.
A childs backpack and a shoe rest in a yard where three children and one adult were hit by a truck Thursday morning, Jan. 19, 2012, in Virginia Beach. The vehicle swerved around a stopped school bus and ran into a yard where the four were standing, officials said.
