A college bus driver in Lake County, Florida, is being praised for her fast pondering and heroics after she used her bus to guard a hit-and-run sufferer throughout an encounter on October 23. In an interview with WKMG Information 6, Stacey Hatcher stated she was returning to the bus depot after she drove Eustis Excessive College bandmembers from a subject journey when she noticed an injured Abigail Stevens mendacity on the highway.
Stevens was discovered near the Lakeview Avenue and Morin Drive intersection. The bus driver stated that although she doesn’t normally ply the Lakeview route, one thing informed her to make use of that highway on the evening of the hit-and-run.
“I assumed it was a prank for Halloween that somebody would do to place somebody within the highway to sort of scare somebody which it did scare me,” stated Hatcher. “So once I noticed her I instantly put my bus in park and I brightened my lights and what made me comprehend it was an actual physique — I noticed blood working alongside the highway the place she was laying and I instantly referred to as 911.”
Hatcher has since described her week as an emotional one – although she’s “dealing with it” day-to-day. “I’ll get higher. I pray for her on daily basis and I do know God goes to deliver her by way of as a result of he wouldn’t have led me that means if he wasn’t,” she stated.
Eustis Police Chief Craig Capri additionally described Hatcher as a “hero” who “ought to be acknowledged as that.” “She was positively on the proper place on the proper time, and he or she saved the human life that day,” Capri stated.
Capri stated they’re but to get a suspect description, although they’ve recognized a suspect car, WKMG Information 6 reported. Police have since shared photos of the automobile in query.
“Hopefully any person will come by way of, any person noticed one thing, any person will know one thing,” Capri stated. “We beg them to come back ahead and assist us out.”
Stevens’ sister additionally informed the information outlet that the sufferer was hospitalized with 20 damaged bones.
