School bus driver crushed by own vehicle

THE DRIVER  of a school bus who failed to put the parking brake on when she was unloading a small passenger, was killed on Thursday  afternoon March 17.

Elia Isabel Chen was crushed by her own collegiate busito, in Santa Librada San Miguelito and brought Panama’s transit death total in less than three months to 103.

Transit  sources  said she had just parked to  deliver one of the children to the door of her home but left the engine on, and did not apply the parking brake.

Witnesses told police the woman tried to stop the busito, but was dragged until it was crashed against a wall.

None of the passengers were hurt.