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A&M bus hits, injures pedestrian
A business assistant is in stable condition after being run over.
By: Nicole Alvarado
Issue date: 1/20/09 Section: News
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The route 34 bus hit Michelle Hayes at the intersection of Throckmorton Road and Joe Routt Boulevard, located between Rudder Tower and the John Koldus building. She was struck by the rear of the bus and ended up stuck in the bus' rear axle, according to witnesses.
Hayes, a business assistant for the psychology department on the Texas A&M Web site as identified by KBTX, was taken to the Emergency Room at St. Joseph Regional Health Center in Bryan. She is located at Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston and is in stable condition, according to hospital personnel.
A passersby heard a scream and a "loud cracking and crunching noise," said Alexander Haley, a junior biomedical science major. Several witnesses called 911. Shortly after, emergency responders removed the woman from under the bus.
Reid Fairbanks, a sophomore civil engineering major, was on the scene before EMT officials were able to respond.
"I pulled up right after she was hit...I saw people run over here and heard screaming, and so I wanted to come over and see if I could help because I'd taken my EMT class before."
Fairbanks said he held the woman's head and neck in his lap and talked to her until ambulances arrived to take her to the hospital.
"She was conscious the whole time," he said. "She didn't really have any serious injuries that you could see. She said she had a lot of pain in her lower abdomen around her pelvic area, so it's possible there could be some internal injury."
The woman told Fairbanks she was halfway across the crosswalk when she was run over.
Hayes was taken from the scene in an ambulance at approximately 12:30 p.m.
Rick Rojas, Kenny Ryan and Jason Staggs contributed to this story.
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