Family Awarded $90 Million From School System For Allegedly Failing To Fix Bus Pick-Up System Before Her Daughter Was Struck By A Car

A Family was awarded $90 million Wednesday after their 13-year-old daughter was killed by a car while trying to get to her bus stop in Maryland. 

The family of Davis sue the Prince George's County Board of Education after Ashley's death from her injuries on Sept. 1, 2009 and won the lawsuit. The compensation given to the family was $90 million on Wednesday.

"She was on her way," her mother, Nycole Davis, said. "She was doing the right thing. She was going to school. She was a good girl. She didn't deserve this. If she didn't have to cross the street ...  she'd be graduating this year," her mother said. "She'd be going to prom this year."

Ashley, a Crossland High School freshman, couldn't overcome the injuries suffered from the accident.

Davis' parents responded by filing a wrongful death suit against Prince George's County School Board. In the suit, the parents claimed that the school had promised to adopt a safer policy for school transportation, but failed to follow through.

 "The school board was negligent," John Costello, the lawyer for the family said. "They had adopted a policy to provide for safe transportation. The policy was they were going to pick up Ashley on her own side of the street. They never did. They forced her to cross the street. She got killed crossing the street."

A Prince George's County jury awarded Ashley's family a verdict of $90 million in damages plus medical expenses and funeral costs, according to the court documents.

"I didn't ask anyone to give me any money or anything like that," her mother said. "I just want someone held responsible for what happened to my daughter."

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