The victim, identified by family members as Destiny Louigene, was playing with friends in a neighbor's front yard on 258th St. in Rosedale when the dog, a Labrador-terrier mix, began menacing the kids, witnesses said.
(NOTE: Do they mean a Lab - Pit mix??? I'm classifying it as that until I hear otherwise.]
"The dog chased Destiny down the street," said Chastity Garcia, 31. "Destiny stopped at the curb, saw the dog was still chasing her, and she ran right into the street."
A yellow school bus turning off Craft Ave. onto 258th St. hit the girl about 3:50 p.m., cops said.
Destiny was knocked into the path of the bus, witnesses said. The driver stopped just in time to avoid running over her with the front tire, horrified witnesses said.
"I was screaming at the top of my lungs for the bus driver to stop," said Garcia. "The bus stopped just in time."
Destiny, in and out of consciousness, was bleeding from her nose, mouth and ears, witnesses said. She was taken by ambulance to Long Island Jewish Medical Center, where her condition was upgraded from critical to stable Monday night.
Destiny has broken ribs and injuries to her liver, spleen and lungs, her family said. A broken bone broke the skin of her right arm.
"I'm devastated right now," said her father, Virgil Louigene. "My daughter is in critical condition. I'm thankful she's going to live."
The bus driver was not charged.
"I saw her step off the curb," the shaken driver, who declined to give his name, told the Daily News. "I knew that I had hit her, and I stopped immediately.
"I've been driving 16 years and I never had anything like this happen," he added.
(NY Daily News - June 28, 2011)
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