NORTHAMPTON, Mass. (AP) – A school bus driver has been charged in the death of a 9-year-old Massachusetts girl who became trapped in the bus door.
Prosecutors said Wednesday that 70-year-old Tendzin Parsons, of Hawley, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Northampton District Court on a charge of negligent motor vehicle homicide.
Authorities say third-grader Summer Steele was getting off the bus in Plainfield last October when the doors closed on her. She was stuck in the door and dragged a short distance before the bus struck her.
She was taken to a hospital, where she died.
She was a student a Sanderson Academy in Ashfield.
It was not clear if the bus driver had a lawyer. A home number for Parsons could not immediately be located.
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