Teenager Killed When Run Over by Bus; Investigators Originally Said He slipped on Ice

What's gets me about this story is the outrageously ridiculous cover story the authorities initially put out about this accident:

A Carmel Clay school bus struck and killed a 15-year-old freshman in January, police said Friday.

Carmel High School student Ziang Ke was running to catch the bus after a light morning snow Jan. 7, according to what one high school student on the bus told police. None of the riders nor the bus driver said they saw Ke fall.

The students and the bus driver felt a bump about 6:45 a.m. at Teague Place and Salamone Way, before sunrise. The driver, Tony Fiore, and a high school student looked out the windows, and the driver also checked his mirrors but neither saw anything, so the driver continued on the route.

Between 6:50 and 7:05 a.m., middle school students who were going to their separate bus stop in the southwest Carmel neighborhood heard someone calling for help, moaning and groaning, police said. That's when one of the middle school students told his father about the noises, and the student's father found Ke conscious and alert on the sidewalk.

Carmel's 911 center received a call at 7:11 a.m. The caller indicated Ke was conscious and breathing. A Carmel police officer arrived about six minutes later and began heart-lung resuscitation on Ke.

Ke was taken to Clarian North Hospital, where he arrived about 7:40 a.m. His heart had stopped.

Certified forensic pathologist Dr. Jolene Clouse that afternoon conducted a preliminary autopsy and found Ke died of a cut liver and a compressed spine and rib cage, likely the result of a fall.

A few days later, Hamilton County Coroner Thurl Cecil said he thought the injuries were more consistent with being run over by a vehicle.

Police said no criminal charges will be filed against the driver because it was an accident. The driver took a leave of absence Wednesday, when investigators told him of their findings, to deal with emotional stress from the incident, school officials said.

The driver was not given a drug or alcohol test after the accident, because police initially had thought Ke fell on the ice. They did not discover until later from interviews with students and the bus driver that a vehicle may have run over Ke.

A Carmel police spokesman said the case took months to resolve because of the initial belief that the boy had died from the fall, the many interviews that had to be conducted, and the time it took for DNA results to come back.

Carmel police checked the bus for evidence after the accident but found nothing to link to Ke's death. Police could not immediately say how many days after the crash the search for evidence from the bus began.

Yeah-- because being run over by a bus looks JUST LIKE slipping and falling on the ice.

This is insanity-- a compressed spine and a cut liver from slipping on ice???? Who the fuck would make such an idiotic finding? I'm glad they finally admitted the truth here, but it took them two months when it should have been obvious from the beginning. It sounds like someone was covering this story up for a while. If I were the parents I would be absolutely furious-- and suing these people's asses off.