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School Bus Safety Emergency: 14-Year-Old Struck by Driver Illegally Passing Stopped Bus in Tragic Incident The footage is enough to make any parent’s heart stop. A 14-year-old girl, Abby Masters, was simply trying to board her school bus. She was doing what thousands of students in Wink, Texas, and throughout the country do every single morning. She was walking toward the open door of a stopped school bus with its lights flashing and stop arm extended. In that moment, a driver decided their schedule was more important than her life. Publicly released footage of the March 31 incident shows the car approaching from behind, ignoring the stopped bus, and attempting an illegal pass. When the driver finally spotted Abby, they slammed on the brakes, skidding off the road and into the grass. The car struck the teenager, sending her tumbling to the ground as she tried to brace for the impact. This collision occurred in Lee County, Florida, but the lessons for families in Wink, Winkler County, and across the Permian Basin are urgent and identical. In our 27+ years of handling catastrophic injury cases at Attorney911, we have seen how quickly a driver’s impatience transforms into a family’s lifelong…