Special needs girl, 7, dies in possible freak seat belt accident on school bus

A special needs girl died in a possible seatbelt mishap while she was sitting in her wheelchair aboard an Ohio school bus — sparking a police investigation.Ngone Talla, 7, was lifeless in her wheelchair by her family after the school bus arrived at her home on Wednesday afternoon, her distraught relatives told WLWT5.Talla, a student at Roselawn Condon School in Cincinnati, may have gotten stuck in a seatbelt leading up to her tragic death, sources told local outlet WXIX.The elementary student’s family said they noticed the bus sitting idle outside the home for 10 minutes — which was unusual, since the bus’s back doors typically open to let her wheelchair out.After her family went outside to see what was happening, they were let on the bus and discovered the youngster “lifeless.”“We went on the bus, and I see my sister unresponsive and lifeless.So, I’m there, I’m mad.

I’m yelling in the bus.I’m like, OK, how did this happen?” Marema Talla, Ngone’s 12-year-old sister, told WLWT5.Talla, who has cerebral palsy, was taken to Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, where she was pronounced dead.Her father, Abdoul Talla, said he got a call Wednesday afternoon that his daughter was not breathing or moving and rushed over to try to help her.

“The bus driver came outside and he told them like, ‘Oh, come look.’ And they went inside the bus, and they see she was not breathing, she was not moving.And after that, that’s why they call me, and I say call 911, and I call 911, me myself,” Abdoul Talla said.“And I drive up here and I see my daughter inside the bus and I was like ‘it’s over,'” the heartbroken dad added.Talla suffered no traumatic injuries or signs of harm before her death, according to the Hamilton County Coroner.“She became unresponsive in her wheelchair on the bus, but she has extensive medical history including cerebral palsy,” the coroner’s office said in a statement.Multiple agencies, including the Cincinnati Police D...