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Mother of teen killed on bus intends to sue

The mother of a teen killed when he stuck his head out of a school bus intends to sue Perry Township school officials and the City of Indianapolis.

Irma Garcia's son Raul Gonzalez IV, 16, died after he stuck his head out of a bus window and hit a tree. The bus driver was steering to avoid an injured raccoon about 7:15 a.m. on Nov. 17 on Stop 11 Road, just west of Bluff Road. Raul was declared dead at the scene shortly after the accident.

Garcia sent officials a tort claim notice -- the first step to filing a lawsuit against a governmental agency -- on Monday. She is seeking $300,000, the maximum allowed for a wrongful death suit in Indiana.

Raul would still be alive, Garcia's lawyer Robert York said, if the bus's windows would have been blocked from opening more than a few inches.

"When we send our kids off to school we feel they are in safe hands," Garcia's lawyer, Robert York, said. "It's really struck this family very hard. His mother can not imagine how it happened."

Raul was developmentally disabled, with an IQ described as low average or borderline. According to the suit, he suffered from attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity.

Garcia, who now lives in Universal City, Texas, faults bus driver Terri Gregory for driving too fast and too close to the trees that lined the road and not monitoring students on the bus. The school district was negligent, she said, for not properly warning Raul of the dangers of the window and allowing the windows to be opened in the first place.

The city is at fault, she claims, for failing to properly maintain the road. Perry Township Schools Superintendent H. Douglas Williams did not return phone calls. Gregory, the bus driver, could not be reached for comment.

"It's a tragic situation," said Tony Overholt, a lawyer for the city, "but I can't go into specifics until we have a chance to review the complaint and complete our investigation."