The mother of a 7-year-old girl who was killed when she was hit by a bus has filed a lawsuit accusing the Regional Transportation Commission of Southern Nevada of negligence and wrongful death.

Wideline Derifond was with her daughter Larissa Lucas in the east Las Vegas Valley on Sept. 21, 2023, when the driver of an RTC bus, according to allegations in a 14-page complaint filed Sept. 19 in District Court, failed to check traffic and crashed into them.

A separate complaint was filed two days later by Alan MacIntosh, a special administrator of Lucas’ estate, who also alleges the bus driver’s actions, as well as negligence from RTC and a third-party vendor, contributed to Lucas’ death.

Lucas’ death was attributed to blunt force injuries and was ruled an accident, according to the Clark Cou

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