New York Daily News

School bus kills woman in Qns.

- Graham Rayman

A MINI-SCHOOL bus with three children aboard struck and killed a woman on a Queens street early Tuesday, police said.

Elise Hellinger, 58, was crossing Kew Gardens Road in Kew Gardens when the bus slammed into her at about 6:45 a.m., police said. She suffered head and body trauma.

The bus made a left going north on Kew Gardens Road onto the westbound side of 82nd Road.

Hellinger scene.

The 24-year-old bus driver has not been charged. The vehicle is owned by Logan Bus Co.

A bus matron and the three children inside the vehicle weren’t hurt.

“Logan Bus is fully cooperatin­g with the ongoing investigat­ion and is devastated by this morning’s incident,” the company said in a statement. died at the

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