A 4-year-old girl has died after being struck by a school bus in Upstate New York.<\/p>\n
The child was hit by a Panama Central School District bus on Monday morning, according to the Jamestown Police Department. WIVB<\/a> reports police were called to reports of a motor vehicle accident at Milton J. Fletcher Elementary School in Jamestown, N.Y., around 8:10 a.m.<\/p>\n Police said they rendered first aid to the child, who was taken to UPMC Chautauqua at WCA Hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.<\/p>\n The girl\u2019s name has not been released, but the Panama Central School District confirmed that she was a student in the Jamestown City School District. <\/p>\n \u201cWe are heartbroken by this devastating news, and our thoughts are with the student\u2019s family and friends,\u201d Jamestown Public Schools Superintendent Kevin Whitaker said in a statement<\/a>. \u201cThis is an unimaginable loss for the Fletcher community and for all of Jamestown Public Schools.\u201d<\/p>\n WKBW<\/a> reports the bus involved was on the way to drop off a student for an out-of-district placement. There was one student on the bus along with the driver at the time of the incident; neither was injured.<\/p>\n Additional details have not been released. No charges have been filed as of Tuesday morning; an investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n Whitaker said Fletcher Elementary School\u2019s Crisis Intervention Team will be available for students, parents and school staff. Counselors are also available for any student who may need or want help or any type of assistance surrounding the loss.<\/p>\n If you purchase a product or register for an account through a link on our site, we may receive compensation. By using this site, you consent to our User Agreement<\/a> and agree that your clicks, interactions, and personal information may be collected, recorded, and\/or stored by us and social media and other third-party partners in accordance with our Privacy Policy.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 4-year-old girl has died after being struck by a school bus in Upstate New York. The child…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[25373,13497,25374,67,13361,2711,9,11,10,49,51,50,16631,25375,2577,23948,1986,3058,25376,10174,142,25377,25378],"class_list":["post-44120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-25373","tag-bus","tag-c0036994","tag-education","tag-flashing","tag-light","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-nobody","tag-one-object","tag-outdoors","tag-public-transportation","tag-safety","tag-school-bus","tag-schoolbus","tag-sign","tag-transit","tag-transportation-industry","tag-tssi011"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}