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The North Carolina State Highway Patrol said Fernando Ortiz-Soto, of Sanford, was driving the van that hit Kempf and that he swerved to avoid the child.
Ortiz-Soto was charged with death by motor vehicle and driving without a license.
The cause of the wreck is still under investigation, but alcohol and speed were not factors, according to authorities.
The boy's mother, Sharon Kempf, said he was a mature child who exceled in school and loved to read.
She was on the front porch watching her son at the bus stop, she said, and, at first, thought the van blew a tire.
I can't even begin to imagine being this poor boy's mother and watching the scene unfold without being able to do anything about it. How absolutely horrible.
You'd think, but I still see people blow past school buses on four-lane roads with no medians -- Maynard Road is the *worst* for this!
My other pet peeve -- running through those school zones at top speed. Cary High School puts the zone lights on for lunch, since seniors and juniors can go off-campus to eat. I happened to come through there and get stuck at the Maynard-Walnut intersection for a while, and virtually nobody was going 25mph. A single cop was patrolling it and pulled someone over -- it's like shooting fish in a barrel down there. If I was Bazemore, I'd put eight cars on that intersection and those two roads every day -- she'd be *rolling* in $$$ from all the fines!
I have also noticed that in this area people don't pull over for Emergency Vehicles very often. They seem to think if the Ambulance or Fire Truck has a passing lane, they can continue on their merry way.
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