AMARILLO, Texas (KAMR/KCIT) – According to released information from the Amarillo Police Department, one student was hospitalized after being hit by a school bus in the area of Plains Boulevard and Kansas Street on Monday morning.

The police department said that officers responded to the area of the incident at around 7:14 a.m. on a call of a crash involving a school bus and a pedestrian. The school bus was traveling westbound on Plains, said police, when the driver “didn’t see” a 13-year-old girl crossing the street in the crosswalk.

The student was taken to a local hospital “with non-life-threatening injuries,” according to police, and the bus driver was “cited for not yielding right of way to pedestrian in crosswalk.”

This is a developing story. MyHighPlains.com will update this article as new information becomes available.

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