School Bus Driver Arrested After Striking 5-Year-Old Child in Ponta Grossa
The child had just exited the vehicle and suffered a clavicle fracture; the driver's daughter, who was a monitor on the bus, reported her father and said he had been drinking.
A 5-year-old child was hit by a school van on Tuesday afternoon (11), in the region of the Cará-Cará neighborhood, in Ponta Grossa.
According to the information of the Military Police, the child had just gotten out of the van Renault Master, when he was hit by the vehicle. The driver stopped briefly, looked back and fled the scene without providing any help.
The SAMU was triggered and referred the child to the hospital. She's had an arm fracture in the collarbone region and abrasions, but she's in a stable frame.
During the diligence, police teams located the driver at his residence. According to the record, when asked by the victim’s mother on the phone, he lied about his location, saying he was in the city center.
The main witness to the case is the monitor who worked in the van, the driver's own daughter. She confirmed that the father was driving the vehicle at the time of the hit and that she was alerted to the accident, but ignored it, saying it "must have been a dog," before fleeing.
According to the witness’s report to the police, the driver used alcohol before carrying out the school transport and continued to consume beer after arriving home.
In the face of the facts, the author was arrested and taken to the police station. In the unit, he had ethyl odor and refused to perform the ethylometer test. The case was recorded as a run-in without wrongdoing and referred to the competent bodies for legal measures.
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