Detroit bus driver to be sentenced after hitting, killing 2nd pedestrian
DETROIT (FOX 2) - A Detroit Department of Transportation bus driver charged with hitting and killing a person who was crossing the road last year will learn her sentence Thursday.
Geraldine Johnson hit and killed Janice Bauer as she crossed Griswold in June 2023.
Johnson was charged with moving violation causing death. She pleaded no contest to the charge in August.
Bauer's family was in disbelief when they found out that this wasn't the first time Johnson was involved in a fatal crash.
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Before that incident, the former Detroit Department of Transportation bus driver had been involved in numerous other crashes, including a deadly crash in 2015. She'd been driving a bus for 26 years, a DDOT press release said.
Johnson hit and killed another person, Joey Davis, back in 2015,
"It didn’t have to happen. That bus driver should not have been driving that day," Linda Bauer said earlier this year.