A Broward County school bus driver has died after he was hit by another school bus driver early Wednesday morning at the district\u2019s bus lot in Pompano Beach, officials said.<\/p>\n
Just before 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, someone reported a crash between a bus and a pedestrian near the 2200 block of Northwest 18th Street in Pompano Beach, BSO spokesperson Claudinne Caro-Guaraldi said in an email.<\/p>\n
Steven Becker, 68, of Boca Raton, was driving a bus away from the gas pumps on the east side of the facility and made a U-turn to travel through the parking lot, the Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release.<\/p>\n
As Becker made the turn, Alfred Desmandes, 69, of Margate, was walking across the dark parking lot, and Becker told detectives he did not see the man \u201cas the parking lot lights were not illuminated,\u201d the news release said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe investigation showed that Desmandes crossed into the path of the bus causing him to be struck by the front driver\u2019s side,\u201d according to the Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n
Desmandes was also a school bus driver, Broward County Public Schools spokesperson Keyla Concepci\u00f3n confirmed in an email Friday.<\/p>\n
Desmandes was taken by Pompano Beach Fire Rescue to Broward Health North Medical Center, where he later died, BSO said.<\/p>\n
Originally from Haiti, where he was a doctor and in the military force, Desmandes had worked as a school bus driver for the district for more than 30 years, his son Kendrick Desmandes told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Friday. On weekends, he worked as a security guard.<\/p>\n