Fourteen-year-old Geneva Clouatre was running to catch the school bus near her Fairgrounds home two weeks ago when a truck blew past the bus and hit her, throwing her several feet and sending her to the hospital with road rash and a head injury.
The bus was stopped, its amber lights flashing and stop sign initiated near the intersection of De Saix Boulevard and Castine Street when the truck illegally passed it and struck Clouatre at around 7:15 a.m. on Sept. 30.
“She got to the middle of the crosswalk and it happened so fast I honestly didn’t see exactly how it happened,” her mother, Kelly Clouatre, said Tuesday…