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Subject:   Bus Attendant Saves Child’s Life

 

Krystle Cushing, 20, a bus attendant for RichLee Vans Inc. Bus Company (a subsidiary of Cook-Illinois Corporation) who lives in the Oasis Trailer Park on Landmeir Rd. and Elmhurst Rd. in Des Plaines, had a motherly instinct and saved a child’s life this past week on April 18.

 

Cushing was riding through an adjacent trailer park on her after-school bus route. Her bus driver slowed down to follow a four-year-old boy who was riding a Big Wheel.  The child kept going out of the trailer park and darted into six lanes of traffic on Touhy Avenue.  The bus attendant jumped off the bus and ran out to save the little boy.  The boy crossed two lanes of traffic and was within a foot of being hit by a truck, when the attendant, risking her life reached him just before a semi-trailer truck slammed on his breaks, missing them by one foot.

 

The irony here is that Krystle is the mother of a two-year-old, six-months pregnant and struggling with a risky pregnancy.   On the night she saved the boy’s life, she was hospitalized with premature labor pains. 

 

Krystle can be reached at 847-759-0532

 

Kathy Gorecki, assistant operations manager for RichLee Vans and Cook County School Bus, has this to say about her employee, “When adrenalin kicks in, it’s amazing the power one has. I am extremely proud of Krystle.  Her love for children made her forget about her own safety.  She put herself and her unborn baby in harms way for an innocent four-year-old riding his bike on a sunny day in April.”  Kathy can be reached at 847-640-0320. 

 

Coverage so far as been in the Des Plaines News Topics and Daily Herald.

 

 

 

 

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