RICHMOND, IN — The parents of a 7-year-old student injured in a fall have filed a lawsuit against Northeastern Wayne Schools.
In the lawsuit — filed on Tuesday, May 19, in Wayne Circuit Court — Arden and Ryan Davis said their son on Sept. 25 was “transferred by bus” from Northeastern Elementary School to Northeastern High School.
When the boy left the bus, the suit said, he was “walking on the sidewalk towards the school when another student called out his name, causing him to look behind him momentarily.”
The suit said the child’s foot “came in contact with a fully lowered school bus handicap ramp that was left unattended, unguarded and obstructing the sidewalk,” causing the student to “fall, hit his head, rupture his spleen and sustain other injuries.”
The lawsuit — filed by Shelbyville attorneys Brady Rife, Sean Roth and Cole Scheible — said the bus driver and Northeastern Schools “breached their respective duty to exercise ordinary and reasonable and supervision, for the safety of their students.”
It alleged they were negligent in “permitting the bus handicap ramp to remain lowered and impeding pedestrian traffic on the sidewalk.”
The suit said their son’s fall resulted in “severe, traumatic, and life-threatening injuries” and caused “medical bills, expenses and other damages” to his family.
It asked that a jury determine damages in the case.
Douglas Walker is a news reporter at The Star Press. Contact him at 765-213-5851 or at dwalker@muncie.gannett.com.
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Reporting by Douglas Walker, Richmond Palladium-Item / Muncie Star Press
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