Child killed near Crowheart; WHP reported driver failed to stop for school bus warning lights
An 11-year-old Crowheart girl was killed Tuesday night on Highway 26/287 about five miles east of Crowheart when she was struck by a pickup truck that reportedly failed to stop for the flashing warning lights of a school bus. The incident was reported at 6:51 p.m. The child, identified as Makayla Strahle (Sperry), had just disembarked from a westbound school bus and was crossing the road when she was struck by the eastbound pickup. Witnesses at the scene told the Wyoming Highway Patrol that conditions were foggy at the time, that the school bus warning lights were flashing, and that the driver of the pickup failed to stop. The child died at the scene. The sixth-grader had been attending a holiday dance at Wind River School and was taking the activity bus home.
The WHP identified the driver as 52 year old William Barnes of Lander, who was behind the wheel of a 2005 GMC Sierra pickup truck.
The WHP said there was no indication of alcohol or drug use by the driver, and that an investigation is underway.
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My coworker and I had to pick up his kid from school whom was a friend of the little girl. He as well as the everyone in the school was devastated. The roads and conditions here in Fremont County have been terrible for the last two days yet people are intent on driving normal speeds with little awareness or care of others, this is a prime example. Slow down and show some courtesy, it might save a life.
We ride the bus and see how some of the drivers drive those FLASHING LIGHTS MEAN SOMETHING this is horrible Prays to the Family of the little Girl.
Just think about that little girl every time you breathe….need to really know what happened.
Little girl is in our prayers, how this came to pass is very important, EO will get the story, for sure.
why do you think out here between lander and hudson we had to be picked up on the side of the road we lived on so we wouldn't get hit.
Its so sad.