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Thu, Nov 26 2009 

Girl recovering after being dragged, run over by bus w/ Wyandotte school superintendent's statement

Sidney was left behind in the muddy road unable to move and in excruciating pain while the bus continued on dropping off a couple of neighbor children. The bus has to turn around and come back past her house, the mother said. During that return trip, the bus driver saw her belongings scattered in the road and then saw her lying there, her mother said.

Her mother heard the family’s dogs barking and went to see why when she noticed something lying in the road. When Rhonda Pierce realized it was her daughter, she rushed to her to hold her.

As they waited in the muddy road for an ambulance to arrive, “She wanted me to sing the song ‘Dead Puppies’ to her to distract her from the pain, but I didn’t know the song ‘Dead Puppies,’” the mother said. “I told her I would sing ‘White Christmas’ to her like I did when she was a baby. I tried, but I don’t sing very well.”

The mother said she resisted crying in front of her daughter but told Sydney that she would need to go have a good cry later in private.

The teenager was taken to Integris Baptist Regional Health Center in Miami. The hospital wanted to keep the girl overnight but both the girl’s mother and father, Martin J. Pierce, are registered nurses. The girl wanted to go home, and they felt they could care for her at home, the mother said.

Rhonda Pierce said the bus driver stayed at the hospital with the family and has been checking on the girl since.

“I don’t want this driver crucified because we are all inattentive at times,” she said. “He just got unlucky and something bad happened.”

Girl convalescing

On Friday, Sydney Pierce was sore and being treated with pain medication. She was getting around to a degree on crutches, mother Rhonda Pierce said, and had an appointment with an orthopedic doctor to double-check the injuries.



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