A Cobb County middle school student is recovering after he was hit by a car Wednesday morning.
Investigators told Channel 2's Ross Cavitt the boy was walking along Shiloh Road in Kennesaw and started to cross the road in front of a stopped bus.
The student was trying to cross the road to Palmer Middle School when he was hit by the car, which was being driven by a Palmer Middle School teacher, police said.
"I have three kids that catch the bus so that was the first thing I thought that it wasn't my daughter so I came out to check on him,” Darlene Badillo said.
When Badillo heard the commotion on Shiloh Road, she went running. Learning minutes later a neighbor kid, a student at nearby Palmer Middle, had been hit near a school bus. She always worried about it.
"I do all the time because a lot of the times I see cars flying."
The bus, pulling away from the scene behind some police units, was not loading students, instead investigators say the young boy was trying to cross the street in front of the bus and was hit by the driver of this Hyundai in the turn lane.
In a tragic twist, the Hyundai's driver was an educator at the same middle school… she was cited for entering the turn lane too early… well before the distant intersection.
"Neighbors tell me this three lane portion of Shiloh Road is relatively new only a few months old, and the entrance to the turn lane is clearly marked down toward the intersection, I'm standing at the point where the middle schooler was hit in the center lane."
"It’s just become a big pain," Timothy Knott said.
Knott says he's complained about the road for years, even after the widening he says the intersection needs a left turn arrow, and the left turn lane, where the child was hit, needs to be extended far past the 300 feet legal limit to deal with the intense school traffic.
