HOWARD COUNTY, Ind. (WNDU) - A construction worker is dead after police say he was hit by a school bus on Monday afternoon near Kokomo.

Police say it happened just before 3:30 p.m. on State Road 22 near County Road 400 East, which is east of Kokomo.

According to investigators, a 35-year-old Kokomo woman was driving a school bus on County Road 400 East and was approaching State Road 22 when 31-year-old Aaron Esparza of Logansport was directing traffic in the construction zone.

As the school bus was crossing at State Road 22, police say a 72-year-old Windfall, Indiana man who was driving a pickup truck hit the school bus on the driver’s side, which caused the bus to hit Esparza.

Police say Esparza died at the scene while the bus driver was treated at the scene for a minor injury.

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