School bus driver arrested for fatally mowing down 10-year-old girl in Brooklyn
The school bus driver accused of fatally mowing down a 10-year-old girl in Brooklyn early Tuesday has been arrested, police said.
Pedro Colon, 61, was slapped with charges of failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to exercise due care for the 6:45 a.m. collision that left little Patience Albert dead, cops said.
Patience and her brother were on their way to school when she was fatally struck at the intersection of Wortman Avenue and Crescent Street in East New York, witnesses and police said.
When authorities arrived on scene, they found Patience lying unconscious in the street with severe body trauma and her 15-year-old brother with a leg injury.
Witnesses said the boy had glass in his bleeding leg.
The NYPD Highway District’s Collision Investigation Squad determined that Colon was traveling northbound on Crescent Street in the yellow school bus and attempted to make a right turn heading eastbound on Wortman Avenue at the time Patience and the boy were attempting to cross Wortman Avenue in the crosswalk.
The children were rushed to Brookdale Hospital Medical Center where Patience was pronounced dead.
Colon remained at the scene, and he was taken into custody.
The bus Colon was driving was a Department of Education-contracted vehicle, officials said.
Colon was suspended pending the outcome the police investigation, according to officials.
Photo Credit: Family photo; Paul Martinka