LOS ANGELES COUNTY, Calif. - A family is grieving the death of a beloved mother and grandmother after the 76-year-old was hit by a school bus and died in La Puente.The California Highway Patrol, which investigates crashes involving school buses, said the incident happened on Monday, May 8 at around 2:20 p.m.
on Hacienda Boulevard and Fairgrove Avenue. Blanca Arcelia Guerrero, the mom of 6, was crossing the intersection when she was struck by a Hacienda La Puente Unified school bus.
The Medical Examiner's office ruled Guerrero's cause of death as blunt force trauma. CHP officers said alcohol/and or drugs are not suspected to be a factor in the crash. RELATED: Elderly woman killed after being struck by school bus La PuenteGuerrero's daughters, Yvonne Torres, Hazel Guerrero and Sandy Medrano said the family is inconsolable over the sudden loss. "The impact was so intense, it fractured her elderly body.
It caused her to fall to the ground which broke her skull and she died instantly. Our last memory with our mother is seeing her poor lifeless body in the mortuary but she looked as beautiful as we can remember her," said Torres.