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Report: Jones Co. student dropped off at bus stop with concussion after accident

The incident report says the child got off the bus with a baseball-sized bruise on his forehead and a paper towel soaked with blood

UPDATE, 11 p.m.:

A Jones County mother is worried after her son was apparently injured in a school bus accident. The student's mother is still looking for answers. She was expecting her boy to come home safe and sound.

Jennifer Davis says on Monday, she was expecting her son to get off the school bus at his normal drop-off spot. She says when she got a call from the director of transportation for Jones County Schools to be at the bus stop when her son arrived, she began to worry.

An incident report from the Jones County Sheriff's Office says the student was hospitalized from injuries on school bus 24. It says the bus tire blew out and veered into the ditch. The sheriff's office says it happened on a dirt road in east Jones County later in the afternoon, but the exact location is unknown for now.

The incident report says that when the boy got off the bus, he had a paper towel to his chin that was soaked in blood. Davis says her best friend immediately took her son to get some medical help.

Sergeant Marty Brownlee with the Jones County Sheriff's Office wrote that the boy was sleeping on bus and fell on the floor during the accident.

Sergeant Brownlee said he was dispatched at the Coliseum Medical Center where he learned about the boy's injuries. Davis sent us pictures of her son. She says it's concerning that neither the driver or director of transportation called an ambulance immediately. She says they shouldn't have let her son fall back asleep after the accident.

The report says says the boy had cuts to the chin, abrasions to the left leg, and a concussion. We spoke to Wendy Vaughn, the director of transportation for Jones County Schools but she declined to comment.

Sergeant Brownlee says he got calls Tuesday evening about other injured students.

He says the situation is still being investigated.

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A Jones County mom is 'infuriated' and seeking answers after her son was dropped off by the school bus Monday with a concussion and cuts.

A Jones County Sheriff's Office incident report says the child's mother, identified as Jennifer Davis, got a call from bus driver Wendy Vaughn, who told her she needed to be at the bus stop when her son got dropped off.

Davis said she couldn't make it in time and sent Zachary Haley instead.

Haley says when the child got off Bus 24, he had a paper towel up to his chin that was soaked in blood and had a baseball-sized bruise on his forehead.

He added that the child was "very dazed."

The driver told Haley that the bus had a blowout and veered into a ditch, which caused the child to fall on the floor.

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Haley said the driver claimed that the child was sleeping at the time of the accident after "he's been told not to."

The child was taken to a Macon hospital where his mom met up with him.

The child confirmed that he was sleeping on the bus, but had no recollection of what happened after he was thrown to the floor until he 'woke up in front of his house.'

Davis was infuriated by the "lack of action(s)" of the bus staff and says that she thinks an ambulance should've been called at the scene of the accident.

The school district declined to comment on the accident, and Jennifer Davis said she also declined comment, on the advice of a lawyer.

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