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This is the moment a teenage girl was dragged along a street for 15 seconds after a bus door shut and trapped her leg.
Zoe Hague, 17, was trying to board when she was caught on the door and pulled down the street as the driver pulled away.
Some of the passengers onboard managed to shout at the driver to stop. But it’s claimed he then left the teenager at the roadside and continued his route.
Zoe suffered with a swollen and badly cut knee, a back injury and had concussion for three days following the incident in Sheffield on September 23.
She said: “I was just stepping on the bus when the doors shut trapping my leg in the door.
“Suddenly the bus set off and pulled me down and started dragging me along the road.
“I was trying to stay upright but my other leg was dragging on the floor and I was banging on the door trying to get the drivers attention.
“I heard passengers shouting at him to stop otherwise I dread to think what would have happened.
“I just knew I had to try and find a way to get out. I started banging on the door – my hearing went in the panic, and as it was coming back I could hear people telling him to stop.”
Zoe said the driver of the bus, which is operated by TM Travel, opened the door to free her leg and then asked if she still wanted to get on the bus. She refused this and instead asked her mum Cheryl to pick her up, as she was “in pain and dazed” and was in “no fit state to go anywhere”.
The A Level student said: “I was completely dazed and my trousers were ripped exposing my bloody knee and my trainer laces had all broke so the shoe was off.
“I was in no fit state to go anywhere and was in pain and dazed.”
Cheryl, of Sheffield, South Yorkshire, took Zoe to A&E, where doctors confirmed she had a concussion.
But she says she “feels sick” knowing the driver left her daughter without calling the police or an ambulance.
Cheryl said: “If I had hit a cat or a hedgehog in my car I would have taken it to a vet for treatment – so to leave a teenage girl in that state at the side of a road is awful.
“She didn’t know where she was and was dazed for a few days. I am grateful that some passengers who were aware of what was going on and shouted to the bus driver or I dread to think what could have happened.
“Some have contacted me since and said they were pretty shaken just from watching the incident unfold.
“Fortunately that day she was wearing thick cord trousers which offered a bit of protection – often she wears short skirts and has bare legs.
“But I know from reading about these incidents involving buses that it can lead to life-changing injuries and fatalities.
“It made me sick to the core when I thought about it afterwards and to leave her like that without calling the police or an ambulance was the final insult.”
Cheryl reported the incident to the bus company and South Yorkshire Police.
But just days later she was left shocked when Zoe saw the same driver still driving the bus on the same route.
Cheryl said: “We reported it to the bus company as we wanted to make sure it didn’t happen to anyone else. But then a day afterwards I found out he is still on the route so I was a bit baffled by that.”
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