North Carolina First Grader Dragged A MILE By School Bus After Driver Closed Door On Her Arm

Many parents in America entrust their children to the care of others. Teachers, babysitters and bus drivers are all entrusted with this responsibility. However, one bus driver shows that that trust can be misplaced after he discovered that he had accidentally closed the bus’ door on the arm of a little girl and then dragged her for a mile.

A first grader was dragged for almost a mile down the road by a school bus after the driver accidentally closed the door on her arm.

The substitute driver only realized Chelsea Klepzig was trapped in the door when he arrived at the next stop in Forsyth County, North Carolina.

Incredibly, the six-year-old escaped with only minor injuries – despite being carried by the bus for the best part of a mile.

But her sneakers, which were ripped apart as her feet dragged on the ground, show what a lucky escape the first grader had.

The driver has now been suspended without pay as school officials decide whether to fire him.

Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools said in a statement they are ‘so thankful the student is OK and it was not worse.’

Little Chelsea had been returning home from Union Cross Elementary School on Monday afternoon when the horrific accident occurred.

Her grandmother was waiting at the Stonington Way Court bus stop, in Kernersville, to collect her, when the door closed on her granddaughter’s arm as she went to get off.

Horrified Estrella Klepzig chased after the bus in her car as Chelsea desperately clung on to the side with her feet and legs dragging on the ground.

‘I had to follow him,’ she told Fox 8. ‘I kept flashing him to stop, stop because I didn’t see her feet anymore. [He] didn’t even give her a chance to move. She was still in the door.’

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