RUTHERFORD, N.J. — Documents from a contract between a school district and the company that was providing its special-needs bus service show that the bus from which a student jumped did not have the correct number of aides, The Record reports.

As previously reported, the girl suffered serious head trauma in the incident, which investigators believed she sustained when she either fell or jumped from the back of her school bus after opening the emergency hatch.   

Lt. John Russo of the Rutherford Police Department told the news source at the time that the bus was carrying the girl, Onyx Williams, and three other students who attend a school for children with special needs. The driver and one aide were also on board.

Now, The Record reports that a copy of the contract between Paterson Public Schools and its former contractor, K&M Transportation, shows that the company had agreed in September to assign two aides to Williams’ route.

(According to a story from PatersonPress.com, the district terminated its contract with the company following the accident, finding in its investigation that K&M Transportation had violated "certain terms and conditions of the contract.")

Williams died over the weekend after doctors attempted to treat her for a fractured skull. The police investigation into the incident remains active, but no one has been charged, and investigators are attributing the death to a “tragic accident,” Lt. Patrick Feliciano, spokesman for the Rutherford Police Department, told The Record.

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