{"id":289948,"date":"2026-05-30T09:56:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289948\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T09:56:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T09:56:21","slug":"out-of-control-driver-hits-student-abby-westveer-boarding-school-bus-in-bonita-springs-florida-lee-county-school-district-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/289948\/","title":{"rendered":"Out-of-control driver hits student Abby Westveer boarding school bus in Bonita Springs, Florida: Lee County School District video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ByStoryful<\/p>\n<p>Friday, May 29, 2026 7:28PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Horror moment out-of-control driver hits student boarding school bus\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. &#8212; The moment an out-of-control Florida driver struck a middle school student boarding a school bus was caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Lee County School District released this footage showing a silver sedan careening into 14-year-old Abby Westveer in Bonita Springs on March 31, sending her flying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">According to local news outlet WINK, the car hit Westveer&#8217;s back, and her backpack left a dent on the vehicle. She managed to walk away from the incident with soft tissue damage and was receiving treatment for whiplash more than a month later.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">In December, the school district announced a $225 citation for anyone who illegally passes a stopped school bus with its lights flashing. Cameras were also installed on all buses and evidence would be shared with local authorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ByStoryful Friday, May 29, 2026 7:28PM BONITA SPRINGS, Fla. &#8212; The moment an out-of-control Florida driver struck a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289949,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[122616,122611,11178,122613,122614,28,30,29,356,122612,10632,7281,122615],"class_list":["post-289948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-122616","tag-abby-westveer","tag-bonita-springs","tag-bonita-springs-fl","tag-bonita-springs-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-lee-county","tag-lee-county-school","tag-lee-county-school-district","tag-school-bus","tag-school-bus-stop"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}