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After 3 months, 6-year-old hit by car goes home

By Times Staff Writer
Published August 4, 2005

ST. PETERSBURG - A 6-year-old boy hit by a car after he ran from his St. Petersburg school in May is back at home.

E'Traveon Johnson, a kindergartener at Fairmount Park Elementary, remains paralyzed and unable to speak, his mother Chantelle Ross told WTSP Ch. 10.

E'Traveon spent more than three months at All Children's Hospital, much of it in critical condition.

Video cameras at the school captured E'Traveon walking into the school after getting off his bus. He ran to the cafeteria for a quick breakfast, walked down an outdoor corridor toward his classroom and rounded the corner into a portico near the classroom, out of the camera's view.

The boy is seen 22 seconds later, darting back into the corridor and leaving the school running through a set of glass doors. He was hit by a car minutes later as he tried to cross Fifth Avenue S at 41st Street.

The incident was one of several during the school year that left Pinellas administrators searching for answers. Two students died in bus-related accidents and a 5-year-old girl was handcuffed after she misbehaved. E'Traveon's mother has given official notice that she intends to sue the Pinellas County School District.

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