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Driver Orders Crying Girl, 5, Off Bus 5 Miles From Home
Child Got On Wrong Bus
POSTED: 12:24 pm PDT August 13, 2004
RIALTO, Calif. -- A 5-year-old girl ended her first-ever ride on a school bus stranded and in tears because a Rialto school bus driver ordered her off five miles away from home.
First-grader Sarah Macias told the bus driver the stop at Mango and Walnut avenues in Fontana. Calif., wasn't hers, but the driver told her to get off along an open field where there were few homes and no stores. It was her first bus ride.
Claudia Walker of Rialto spotted the frightened girl and took her to the Fontana Police Department. The girl's parents were called and they were reunited an hour later.
The August 4 incident, which was made public on Thursday, occurred at the end of the second day of school when Sarah was instructed by a teacher to follow girls boarding a bus. Sarah's shoe fell off, however, and she got distracted and boarded the wrong bus.
The girl says she was told to get off when the bus reached its last stop.
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