Can you believe this … when I was a little kid I got hit by a school bus! Bad enough that it was a school bus, but even worse that the driver did it on purpose!

The bus driver got tired of the kids lining up for the bus and crowding the door every day as she pulled the bus up to the curb. As an adult I can now look back and I figure that she was scared that she might one day hit a child if one was pushed in front of the bus.

So, being tired of the kids crowding the curb, what does she do? As she’s approaching one day, and while I’m bent over tying up a lose shoelace, she begins to open and shut the bus door several times. She probably did this so the kids would see it and have to back up to make room for the space the open door took up, thus making them move backwards away from the edge of the curb.

Great, maybe that was a good idea, but I didn’t see her coming, and she obviously didn’t see me bent over tying up my shoe lace!

The bus door hit me hard as the bus rolled up to the curb and I went into a spin and landed several feet away from where I’d been. I couldn’t get up. You know why? Well, because the stupid bus driver broke my back!

I ended up being in traction in the hospital for uhm at least 2 months! A couple of my thoracic (upper back) vertebrae had been cracked. Any higher and she might have broken my neck. I’m lucky to be alive and not paralyzed. Stupid bus driver. I have chronic upper back pain to this day because of her.

My parents got in touch with a Car Accident Attorney immediately. I was about 10 years old at the time, and in the hospital for several months so I don’t know all of the details of what happened, but I know that my parent sued the bus driver personally, and sued the school. The car accident lawyer won the case of course. I’d hope it wasn’t the hardest case he’d ever fought. I mean read my story, the bus driver was in the wrong wasn’t she?

My parents didn’t get a lot of money for the accident. Maybe a couple of thousand- which back in the 70’s was quite a bit of money I suppose. They put it in a bank account for me and it gained interest, and I used it for my college studies. That money helped me move to Toronto to go to school. If it hadn’t of been for that money maybe I would have never left Brantford, and I probably wouldn’t have met my wife either.

So remember folks- if you get in an accident, especially if you are injured, get yourself a car accident lawyer.