Mom Sues Over Son Being Kicked Off School Bus Along Busy Highway
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IRVING (CBS11) - An Irving mom is suing, after she says her son was forced off a school bus along a busy highway.
Six-year-old Tyler Jackson doesn't talk about that day in February.
"I don't want to talk about it," he told CBS11 News.
The memory still brings his mother to tears.
"That was the worst day of my life," said Sabrina Vallet.
Tyler's daycare, Adventure Discovery Centers, called to tell her he never arrived on its after school bus.
Her lawsuit claims it left without him.
She says, a Dallas County Schools bus picked him up instead and dropped him off on State Highway 183.
"I kept telling her mommy. She didn't listen. I don't live here," she said her son later told her.
As Vallet searched for her son, 911 received another call.
"How you doing? I found a little boy in the middle of the highway and he's running," says a man's voice in the audio recording.
An operator alerted Vallet, who drove to the hotel parking lot where the Good Samaritan waited with her son.
"I'm praying. Please let my baby be okay," she said.
"Oh my God!" she yells on the 911 call
"Do you have your child," asks the operator.
"Yes. Thank you so much! Thank you. Thank you."
Vallet says she still has nightmares where she can't reach her son.
"About me not being able to get to him to save him," she said.
She now wants those responsible for losing her son to pay. Dallas County Schools Wednesday said it cannot respond to a lawsuit it has not received. A letter, though, from its insurer argued DCS has "governmental liability" protecting it from any liability.
The daycare maintains Tyler was not at school when its bus arrived.
"We can't pick up a child that was not there. We were absolutely not at fault," said owner Julia Thatcher.
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