WASHINGTON – The National Transportation Safety Board is sending an investigator to southwest Wisconsin, where a 13-year-old girl was struck and killed while waiting to board a school bus. The NTSB investigator will work with Sauk County Sheriff Chip Meister and produce a report probably within three weeks. The NTSB noted that although about 100 fatal school transportation-related crashes occur annual in the United States, school buses are extremely safe. Even so, possibilities for safety improvements will be examined, the agency said.
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Brian Gurney, father of Evelyn about the pickup driver: “We’re sorry that he’s also having to go through the grief he is. We hope that he can try to grow from this and not let it ultimately affect him for the rest of his life.”