'My belly was on fire': Pregnant woman cries out in agony after bus driver 'ran' stop sign and obliterated car she was in, killing her unborn child, mom says

A Florida mates is calling for justness aft allegedly losing their unborn babe successful a crash involving a schoolhouse autobus operator successful Georgia who "failed to halt astatine a halt sign" and slammed into their vehicle, according to the parents and authorities investigators.

"My belly was connected fire," said Sierra Johnson successful an interrogation with Georgia NBC affiliate WALB. "I felt similar I was dying," she told the station. "I was conscionable laid connected the roadworthy and asked everybody who's adjacent maine to assistance me. And that I'm pregnant, and, like, delight prevention my baby."

A GoFundMe created for Johnson and the begetter of her baby, Kasen Millwood, says she was "just 23 weeks and 5 days pregnant" erstwhile the "devastating" March 20 clang claimed the beingness of their babe pursuing an exigency C-section. The online fundraiser says the crash was "caused by a autobus that failed to halt astatine a halt sign."

Georgia State Patrol launched an investigation, with preliminary findings blaming a Lowndes County Schools autobus operator for failing to output to a halt motion earlier entering the roadway and striking Johnson's Hyundai SUV, according to the authoritative clang report, which was obtained by Law&Crime.

GSP's nationalist accusation director, Capt. Crystal Zion, told Law&Crime that its Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team "has taken implicit the investigation" and is presently probing what occurred. "Their investigations tin instrumentality 60-90 days to implicit owed to the resources and extent involved," Zion said.

According to the clang report, the autobus operator was traveling eastbound connected Howell Road approaching Inner Perimeter Road successful Lowndes County erstwhile they "failed to halt astatine the halt motion positioned connected the southbound enarthrosis of Howell Road." Johnson and Millwood were traveling southbound connected Inner Perimeter Road approaching Howell Road.

"Video grounds indicates operator of [the bus] failed to halt astatine the halt sign," the study alleges. "The 2 vehicles made interaction with 1 different erstwhile the near broadside of [the bus] came into interaction with the beforehand of [Johnson and Millwood's] vehicle."

The mates "came to an uncontrolled last rest" successful the northbound lanes of Inner Perimeter Road, wherever Johnson was recovered lying successful the street, the study says.

"[The autobus driver] stated they did not spot [Johnson and Millwood] and did propulsion retired into the intersection," the study concludes. "[Johnson] was 23 weeks large astatine the clip of the crash. [Johnson] was admitted to the infirmary with superior injuries."

According to the GoFundMe, the clang near Johnson with a breached collarbone and a punctured lung "and she was rushed into" an exigency C-section astatine South Georgia Medical Center. "Despite the champion efforts of the aesculapian team, Sierra and Kasen mislaid their precious baby, Mason," the fundraiser says.

Millwood described the aftermath of the clang to WALB and noted however Johnson was lying down successful the roadway erstwhile helium realized what had happened.

"I look backmost and I spot her. And the adjacent second, I don't," Millwood recalled. "I had made a precise halting halt and turned astir and determination was conscionable pieces and she was already retired connected the ground."

The mates told WALB that constabulary person been successful interaction with them astir the GSP investigation. They say no 1 from Lowndes County Schools has contacted them oregon reached retired astir what allegedly happened.

The territory did not respond to Law&Crime's requests for remark connected Thursday.

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"We conscionable privation justice, and we privation answers for our babe lad and wherefore his beingness had to travel to specified an abrupt end," Millwood said. "We've seen plentifulness of incidental reports astir the accident. No one, successful conscionable astir each report, nary 1 has been injured successful its statements. And, I mean, we've mislaid one."

Johnson and Millwood's GoFundMe describes "the symptom of losing Mason" arsenic thing "no genitor should ever person to endure, and the roadworthy to healing volition beryllium agelong and difficult." The kid was owed to beryllium calved connected July 12, 2026.

"This calamity has turned their satellite upside down," the GoFundMe says. "Sierra is present recovering from her injuries, some carnal and emotional, portion she and Kasen effort to find a mode guardant without their beloved baby."