Middle school girl run over by bus while fighting classmate

<p>A school bus rolled over a 13-year-old at a middle school after the girl fell out of the bus during a fight with a classmate, police said.</p><p>The girl, who was identified by classmates as Tiesha Mims, suffered multiple pelvic fractures, a broken leg and a ruptured bladder.</p><p>The incident happened Monday at Sego Middle School.</p><p>Mims required surgery at Medical College of Georgia Hospital, sheriff's Investigator Blaise Dresser said. But she was expected to recover and will be charged in the fight, he said.</p><p>The bus driver, Robert Thompson, will not be charged, police said.</p><p>The bus had arrived at school just before 9 a.m. when the girls' argument turned into a fight, police said. The driver was trying to move the bus to an unloading area where teachers could help when the girl grabbed the door release during the fight and fell out.</p><p>Thompson kept driving because so many children were in the front egging on the fight and blocking his view of the door, Dresser said.</p><p>"He didn't realize she had fallen out. There was so much commotion going on," Dresser said. "There was a million kids watching the fight."</p><p>A 12-year-old girl was charged as a juvenile with simple affray and reckless conduct. Police say the 12-year-old was not riding her assigned bus.</p><p>___</p><p>HASH(0x28659a4)</p>

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