‘It was a big boom’: SUV hits school bus, sending it into family’s front yard
By Zoie Henry
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MILWAUKEE (WISN) — A hit-and-run driver crashed into a school bus during the morning rush hour on Tuesday near 76th Street and Carmen Avenue in Milwaukee’s Silver Spring neighborhood, narrowly missing a woman inside her home.
The morning routine was anything but ordinary outside Lorenda Collins’ house.
“It sounded like a car crash. It was a big boom. And I thought it was a car crash. So I went out in the front and I say, ‘Oh my God, it’s a school bus. Like in, like almost in my house,'” Collins said.
Police say someone blew a stop sign on Carmen Avenue and collided with a school bus, sending it into Collins’ front yard. The Safeway bus almost hit her house, striking a fence and a meter on the house next door.
“But, yeah, my mom usually sleeps in that room by the window. And my kids are usually in the living room because they were getting ready for school,” Collins said.
Fortunately, no children were on board the bus.
“The one boy that was supposed to get on the bus did not get on the bus today. So that’s praises to God,” Collins said.
Collins spoke with the bus driver, who was visibly shaken.
“Yeah, she was very shaken up, so I just want to make sure she was OK because she was really shaken up. She felt really bad, and it wasn’t her fault,” Collins said.
Collins said her three kids would usually be waiting on the corner, putting them in the path of the crash.
“We come out right here in the front because the bus comes right here. So it was just like, I’m like literally one minute away from getting on the bus. So all praises to God,” Collins said.
Witnesses say a white SUV took off from the scene, but Milwaukee police had no further description.
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