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Bus Driver Cited After Pedestrian Fatality

News Channel 8 photo by DAVID KRAUT

The woman was walking across West Main Street and North Howard Avenue when she was hit by a bus after just exited it.

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The Tampa Tribune

Published: May 30, 2008

Updated: 05/30/2008 10:10 am

A woman died Thursday evening after being hit by the same HART bus she had just exited at West Main Street and North Howard Avenue, Tampa police said.

Authorities are withholding her name until family members have been notified. Detectives think her only family might be in Cuba; therefore, notification could take a while.

About 5:45 p.m., the woman stepped off the bus and started walking across North Howard Avenue just as the bus started to make a right turn.

The bus hit her in the crossing and ran over her, police said. The woman was rushed to St Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead.

Police issued a civil citation to the bus driver, William D. Leduc, 64, of Riverview, for failing to yield the right of way in a pedestrian crossing.

A check of state records shows Leduc was involved in four automobile accidents since 1998 but was found not at fault in each case.

Personnel records from HART show LeDuc in 2006 received an award for nine years of safe driving on the job. He also was named "Outstanding Operator Employee of the Month" in August of that year.

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