An 84 year-old woman in North Carolina has been sentenced for hitting and killing a child at a school bus stop.

Geraldine Baron Deitz of Raleigh was sentenced to 18 months probation. She must also pay a $500 fine and give up her driver’s license for one year.

Deitz struck and killed 6 year-old Ashely Ramos-Hernandez in August. Ramos-Hernandez had gotten off the school bus and was crossing the street when she was struck by Deitz’s sport utility vehicle.

According to the police report, Deitz told officers that the school bus had not activated all its warning signals, however witnesses at the scene told police that the signals and markers were all properly activated.

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A mother and her five-year-old daughter were killed in a head-on crash on the way to school Tuesday morning in Wilkes County.

According to the North Carolina Highway Patrol, the accident occurred shortly before 7:20 a.m. on Dragway Road between Ferguson and Wilkesboro. Trooper sa that Brittany Dancy was speeding in the rain when she hydroplaned, causing her vehicle to cross the center line and slammed into another car head-on. Neither Dancy or her daughter, Makayla Lynn Birch, was wearing a seatbelt.

The driver of the vehicle that was hit by Dancy, Sarah Huffman, is a nurse and got out of her car after the collision and began CPR on the five-year-old.

The principal at Makayla’s school Mount Pleasant Elementary, said staff members leaned on each other to get through the day.
“We did not tell the students today. We felt it was best to keep their day as normal as possible. We did send home a school messenger phone call to parents to let them know what happened so they can discuss it with their children,” said Blackburn.

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A teenage girl from Reidsville was killed in a car crash off of U.S. Highway 29.

Shortly before 2:30 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, 18 year-old Laura Cristina Salinas was driving in the left northbound lane of U.S. 29 when she lost control of her car and ran off the right side of the highway. Her vehicle traveled over the grass shoulder and went airborne. The car continued over the highway on-ramp from Cone and then struck a guardrail. The car then flipped and came to rest upside down in a ditch filled with shallow standing water.

According to Greensboro police, Salinas was underwater between five and seven minutes before emergency services arrived. She was transported to Moses Cone Hospital where she was pronounced dead.

The Greensboro Police Department Crash Reconstruction Unit is still investigating the accident.

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