Mother of 6-year-old who died during bus ride speaks out at school board meeting
Najmah Nash, the mother of the 6-year-old who died on her way to school while harnessed in her wheelchair, is speaking out against the school. A New Jersey mother is demanding answers from her local school board after her 6-year- old daughter who uses a wheelchair died on a bus ride to school . "What will be your course of action to ensure that this doesn't happen to any other family?" Najmah Nash, the mother, said at a Thursday board meeting, according to WABC in New York City. According to the Somerset County Prosecutor's Office, the child, who used a wheelchair, was being transported on a school bus to an extended school year program on July at a local school in Franklin Township on Monday morning when she became unresponsive. MORE: Workplace inaccessibility is keeping disabled people from jobs During the ride, "a series of bumps in the road caused the 6-year-old to slump in her wheelchair seat making the 4-point harness which secured her to the chair to...