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School bus driver charged in death of 6-year-old boy on way to St. Albert school
ST. ALBERT, Alta. – A school bus driver has been charged in the death of a little boy north of Edmonton.
Joseph Allen of Edmonton has been charged with driving carelessly and failure to yield to a pedestrian.
Six-year-old Thomas Wedman was struck and killed by a school bus as he was crossing the street to get to his school in St. Albert on Sept. 27.
About 1,000 people attended a memorial for the Grade 2 boy who was remembered by his parents as an angel.
Allen is scheduled to make his first court appearance on Jan. 27 in St. Albert provincial court.
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