SOURCE: Moultrie Observer
PHOTO: Colquitt County Sheriff’s Office
UPDATED: Friday, October 26,2018 10:20 a.m.
MOULTRIE – Coroner Verlyn Brock has identified the deceased child who was hit, along with his brother, Thursday morning, as 10-year-old Noah John Palmer. Flown via helicopter to a Macon hospital earlier in the day, the Georgia State Patrol said, he was pronounced dead 12 hours later.
GSP Cpl. Kenneth Jones said a school bus was stopped on Thigpen Trail an hour before sunrise to pick up the students, who attended Hamilton Elementary School. The bus was facing northbound with its stop arm extended, and a southbound Kia failed to stop, striking the boys as they crossed.
Palmer’s 7-year-old brother, Dylan, was airlifted to a hospital in Tallahassee, Jones said. He said the boy was in serious condition.
GSP Trooper Jones said the driver of the Kia, Monica Cutts, 26, of Tallahassee, was charged with driving while license suspended, a school bus violation and two counts of serious injury by vehicle.
UPDATED: Thursday, October 25, 2018 5:02 p.m.
SOURCE: WALB, WTXL
COLQUITT CO – One of the elementary school students hit by a vehicle this morning while crossing the road to get on a school bus has died.
Monica Cutts, 25, from Tallahassee, was taken into custody on Thursday by Georgia State Patrol.
According to GSP, the child airlifted to Macon has succumbed to their injuries. GSP has not released any details on the condition of the second child, who was airlifted to Tallahassee.
Cutts is being charged with first-degree vehicular homicide, a school bus stop violation, serious injury caused by a vehicle, and driving with a suspended license, and was taken to the Colquitt County Jail.
COLQUITT CO., GA – Two elementary school students were hit Thursday, October 25, 2018, by a vehicle as they were crossing the road to board their school bus around 6:45 a.m. on Thigpen Trail in Colquitt County.
The driver of the vehicle ran the stop sign on the bus, Colquitt County School Superintendent Doug Howell said.
One child was airlifted to Macon, and the other to Tallahassee. The identities of the children have not been released yet.
The Georgia State patrol is investigating the incident.
