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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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