LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A girl who was hospitalized after a hit-and-run crash caught on her dashcam died from her accidents, California Freeway Patrol stated Friday.
Erika Bruce was a driver for Arrow Stage Strains. She liked her job and the individuals she labored with like Tanner Waldrip, liked being round her.
“Erika was, you know, someone that you could always joke with,” Waldrip stated.
Waldrip stated Bruce was a staff participant, she might drive any car. Her favourite was a constitution bus, quantity 1621. She drove sports activities groups, area journeys, excursions, and extra.
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Bruce’s coworkers and members of the family are anxiously ready for justice. It might be across the nook, with the driving force who hit Bruce’s automobile abandoning proof.
Dashcam video confirmed Bruce driving dwelling from Barstow on Interstate 15 within the early morning hours of Sunday, Jan. 5 when a driver slammed into the again of her van, sending her right into a ditch.
“She worked hard her whole life. I’d never see my mom unemployed. Bus driving is something that she loved doing. She talked the last year. She talked about, you know, stop bus driving because she’s tired of driving,” Tyana Samuel, Bruce’s daughter, stated.
The opposite driver hit her so laborious that their license plate quantity was embedded into the again of her automobile.
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“She’s a good person and she didn’t deserve this,” Bruce’s mom, Verna Scott, stated. “And I hope whoever is doing this, I hope they turn themselves in, because I can’t live without my baby.”
Waldrip and the bus firm are in Las Vegas to assist Bruce’s household.
“Hearing those voices is obviously kind of just sends chills through your body every time, knowing that what they’re going through is worse than what we’re going through,” Waldrip stated. “You know, that’s her daughters, her family, her husband, everybody involved there.”
