The following is a NY Times article: A yeshiva’s school bus struck a 4-year-old boy in Borough Park, Brooklyn, on Wednesday morning, killing him, the authorities said.

The boy, Amrom Altman, had just left his house for school when he was struck by the yellow bus near the intersection of 13th Avenue and 49th Street around 8 a.m., the authorities said. No charges were filed immediately against the bus operator, who was driving for Yeshiva Bais Chaim Yoshua.

Onlookers gathered on 49th Street between 13th and 14th Avenues, where the boy’s body lay in the street in front of his family’s three-story brick row house. Police officers streamed in and out of the house, and the street remained closed.

The boy’s grandparents arrived about 10 a.m., the grandmother stopping on the icy sidewalk and doubling over, heaving with sobs. The yellow bus had been moved to the corner, where police officers had boarded it and opened the hood to examine it.

A law enforcement official said that when the bus arrived, the boy and his 13-year-old brother were not outside waiting. The bus could not block traffic as it waited for them to emerge from the house, so it went around the block. When the bus arrived a second time, the driver still did not see the boy, so he took off, not realizing that the boy was running toward the bus.

The boy apparently slipped on ice, according to witnesses, and was caught between the front and rear tires on the right side of the bus, the law enforcement official said. The older brother witnessed the accident. The driver did not realize what had happened and was flagged down by onlookers. He stopped the bus by the corner of 14th Avenue.

The boy died at the scene. It was not clear whether other children were on the bus at the time.

The driver, a 32-year-old man, passed a Breathalyzer test at the scene, the law enforcement official said. Attempts to reach the bus company were unsuccessful.

A law enforcement official said that after inspecting the bus, the police issued a summons to the driver because the horn was not working properly. However, investigators do not believe that played any part in the accident.

Neighbors faulted the city for not removing ice and snow. Gill Hoffman, who lives up the block, said a friend had seen the accident. “The child was slipping on the snow under the bus,” he said. “It’s a shame. We are very embarrassed that we live in such a city.”

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