'Lost for words': Community devastated after 6-year-old boy killed in Vaughan school bus collision

The six-year-old boy who died after being struck by the driver of a school bus in Vaughan on Wednesday was named Matteo, say devastated friends and neighbours.

The six-year-old boy who died after being struck by the driver of a school bus in Vaughan on Wednesday was named Matteo, say devastated friends and neighbours.

He was a Grade 1 student at St. Stephen’s Catholic Elementary School in Woodbridge, according to parents in the community.

The fatal collision happened at around 8 a.m. near Pierre Berton Boulevard and Kleinburg Summit Way, which is west of Kipling Avenue and north of Teston Road.

A resident in the neighbourhood who said he witnessed the incident told CP24 that the boy was running to catch the bus when he was hit.

“The bus driver didn’t see him,” the man said.

He said there were several kids already on the bus at the time of the collision.

“They were screaming,” he said.