SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. — An 11-year-old girl was hit by a car as she was getting on the school bus in Butler County on Tuesday.
It happened at the intersection of Vincent and Franklin Streets in Slippery Rock just after 7:15 a.m.
“It was really scary, my heart was beating,” neighbor Alyssa Spagnoletti said.
The victim is a student at Slippery Rock Middle School.
Spagnoletti said she woke up to the bus blaring its horn.
“I heard screaming and crying and I looked outside the window and saw a bunch of people in the middle of the road the school bus was stopped and the girl was laying on the ground,” Spagnoletti said.
The bus was stopped with the stop sign out and flashing lights on at the time of the crash.
The 20-year-old man who hit the girl is a student at Slippery Rock University, according to the police chief.
At last check, the victim is in stable condition.
The driver is cooperating with police but will be charged in the crash.
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