2 Investigators: CPS Bus Vendor Has History Of Accidents, Injuries

April 26, 2012 12:00 AM " CHICAGO (CBS) — Leonardo Elias’ life changed forever when an Alltown school bus hit him.

“He had multiple skull fractures. He had brain bleeds on both sides of his head,” his attorney, Lawrence Ruder, tells CBS 2’s Pam Zekman.

After 9 months in treatment, Elias still needs constant supervision.

“When the accident happened my other dad is gone and it’s another person right now,” his son, Leonardo Elias Jr., said in an interview videotaped by the family’s attorney.

Now the family is suing Alltown Bus Service and the bus driver, Chelleveda Smith.

In a deposition taken for the lawsuit, Smith says she recalled seeing Elias, dressed in blue, start into the crosswalk.

She said she looked both ways and “saw blue on the other curb,” indicating Elias had completed crossing the street.

But video captured by a red-light camera clearly shows Elias was not on the curb.

In a telephone interview with CBS 2, Smith also complained that the school busses have blind spots.

This was not the first time an Alltown bus driver was involved in a horrific crash.

The company has settled about a dozen personal injury suits since 2005 for more than $29 million "

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