White Bear Lake girl hit by bus: 'The angels were with me'

Mpls (red)Star Tribune ^ | 1/29/04 | Herón Márquez Estrada

[Valin]

Grown-ups had a hard time figuring out how Brittany Hutchinson survived being hit and run over by a school bus Tuesday afternoon, but the 5-year-old White Bear Lake girl had an easy explanation.

"The angels were with me, they keepded me safe," Brittany, a kindergartner at St. Mary of the Lake School, said Wednesday night. "If the angels weren't with me, I wouldn't be alive."

Brittany was hit seconds after she left the bus at her day-care center in Vadnais Heights. The entire length of it passed over her, but the wheels missed her.

"I saw just a little bit of the bus go over her," said Brittany's sister, Victoria, 9, who got off at the same stop.

(snip)

She didn't remember being hit, she didn't remember being on the bus, she didn't even remember being in school," said her father, Tim Hutchinson, who rode in the ambulance with Brittany.

Twelve stitches were needed to close the gashes on her head. She was released from the hospital Tuesday night, but not before telling her parents an amazing story.

"She said the angels saved her," Tim Hutchinson said Wednesday, keeping his arms wrapped tightly around his daughter. "It was one of the first things she said."

(snip)

"We're a Christian household, but we don't really emphasize angels. We believe in them but not to the point where we hammer it home. We believed before this, but now . . . we have her home, and that's all the proof we need."

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Thanks, Valin. That is a very moving story.

[quietolong]

"angels on the roadway"

[ValerieUSA]

bump

[Mo1]

Ping for a moving story

[Darksheare]

Entertaining angels unaware.

[Darksheare]

Welcome to FR.

[Johnny Gage]

From looking at Mr Hotz's postings it appears that he/she has a serious fetish for "accountability"


Thankfully this kids was not seriously hurt. God must have some plans in her future.

[Johnny Gage]

Entertaining angels by the light of my TV screen. 24 - 7, you wait for me. -Newsboys. Great song. Newboys are my son's favorite group.

[r9etb]

God must have some plans in her future.

Once under the bus, Brittany said, she saw 10 angels. She doesn't remember details, except for what she says they told her.

"They said they would always be upon me," Brittany said while holding a balloon, one of the numerous gifts she received Wednesday.

I'd say you're probably correct.

[ken5050]

Agree...and if you want another moving story..check out the NY TImes SPORT section today....aboout how the Carolina Panthers aided a dying girl..she's really a study in courage.....please feel free to post it as a thread...I on principal, refuse to link or post to any paper that could run Dowd and Krugman...

[Valin]

The Pioneer Press did a story on this and no mention of angels. Interesting that the red star would go withe a different angle.

[tiki]

Sweet

[Darksheare]

Yup.
Don't have any of their newer stuff myself though.
*rats*

[Salvation]

Let's hope they become true believers now.

[Salvation]

**God must have some plans in her future.**

Part of my faith story too.

[BraveMan]

My guardian angel wears a hardhat! ;0)

[Buggman]

What are you babbling about?