Brenda Mitchell, 42, a 14 year Palm Beach County School District employee was driving a school bus to pick up students in Boca Raton, when she suffered a heart attack at Lake Worth High School on Tuesday, according to Palm Beach County School District and reported by Cynthia Roldan and Alexandra Seltzer of The Palm Beach Post.
Mitchell was on her way to pick up students, driving southbound on A street when she suffered the attack. She did not have any students in her bus at the time.
According to Captain Don DeLucia, a Palm Beach Country fire rescue spokesman, Mitchell, “Drove into hedges and through a fence in front of Lake Worth High, before driving around a pole and through the fence again.”
Lake Worth Utilities Director Rebecca M. Mattey said that approximately 8,600 customers lost power because of the bus accident as the bus knocked out traffic lights at Lake Worth Road and Interstate 95, and at Lake Worth Road and South A Street. However, power was restored quickly.
Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Sgt. John Churchill, head of the Traffic Homicide Unit shared that bus attendant, Latasha Black, was in the bus and according to Palm Beach County School District spokesman Nat Harrington, Black pulled the emergency brake to stop the bus and she was not injured.
Churchill reported that Brenda Mitchell was taken to JFK Medical Center in Atlantis in critical condition.
Thank you to Cynthia Roldan and Alexandra Seltzer fromThe Palm Beach Post for this information.
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