Along Came A Spider… Child Injured In Collision With School Bus When Arachnophobic Mom Flees Car In Gear

You can understand why deputies from the Kosciusko County sheriff’s department, along with police, fire, and EMS units from Syracuse, Indiana, responded last Friday afternoon to a report of a vehicle colliding with a school bus. Fortunately, there were no children on board at the time, but arriving officers found a nine-year-old boy with minor head injuries lying on the ground near the wrecked, apparently driverless Dodge Avenger that had hit the bus.

An investigation revealed that the boy’s mother, 35-year-old Angela Kipp, of Syracuse, was backing out of her driveway onto a county road with her son in the back seat, when she was startled by a spider on her shoulder. Kipp freaked out and bolted from the car, leaving it in reverse. The boy climbed into the driver’s seat, hoping to stop the car, but he hit the wrong pedal, accelerating the Avenger into the road just as a Wawasee Community school bus was passing by.

The driver of the bus was uninjured and Kipp’s child was transported to a hospital in nearby Goshen, where he was reported to be in stable condition with what were described as minor head injuries. There has been no report of any, tickets, charges or involvement of child protection agencies, but the collision is still under investigation.

Photo courtesy the Kosciusko County Sheriff’s Department.

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