Let's hope for a better day tomorrow........

My day today got off to a terrible start so of course I figured I should blog about it. So, on my way to work today approx 6:45am, I was driving on the icy roads left over from last night and I notice up ahead of me there was a school bus pulled off the side of the road but didn't have any flashers or other lights on. So I slow down even more because I also see that across the street there was a small group of kids and there was no telling what they might do. Keep in mind at this time of day the sun still hasn't' come up yet. So as I'm driving I'm keeping an eye on the bus and the kids and the next thing I know there was an Expedition coming towards me and one of the kids DARTS RIGHT IN FRONT OF HER AND SHE NAILED HIM!!! I freak out and grab my phone to call 911. As I'm doing so the lady that hit him grabs a blanket out of her car and wraps the boy up that's now laying in the middle of the street after flying about 20 feet away from where he was hit. The dispatcher asks me how old the boy is and I say he looks about 8yrs. I approach the boy and ask him how old he is and he tells me he's 15. (Ok, it was dark and he had a coat on with a hood over his head, cut me some slack) so I ask him whatever else the dispatcher has me ask him. In the mean time the stinkin bus turns on his flashers-k, I think it's a little late for that! Short story long, the paramedics took him to the hospital that I work at then I found out that he was life flighted to a different hospital. The poor kid but I also felt SOOO bad for the sweet lady that hit him. She just kept saying to me over and over "the bus lights weren't flashing, I would have stopped, I swear they weren't on". So, I had to wait in my car until a police officer could interview me and I thought I would take a picture. It was with my phone so it's not very good quality. The kid had already been taken away at this point. He ended up having several injuries including a nasty leg break. Here's a copy of the story but I don't believe the bus driver tried to warn him not to cross- doesn't make sense. http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=2575314