Fourteen-year-old Geneva Clouatre was running to catch the school bus near her Fairgrounds home two weeks ago when a truck blew past the bus and hit her, throwing her several feet and sending her to the hospital with road rash and a head injury.

The bus was stopped, its amber lights flashing and stop sign initiated, near the intersection of De Saix Boulevard and Castine Street when the truck illegally passed it and struck Geneva at around 7:15 a.m. on Sept. 30.

"She got to the middle of the crosswalk and it happened so fast I honestly didn't see exactly how it happened," Geneva's mother, Kelly Clouatre, said Tuesday.

Geneva recovered and was back at school this week, but New Orleans Police Department Sgt. Kevin Thompson said at a Tuesday morning news conference that Geneva's case typifi

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