Update: 2 children hurt running into car in Providence
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A brother and sister were in fair condition Friday morning at Hasbro Children's Hospital after they ran into the side of an oncoming car while crossing Orms Street to get to their school bus stop, according to the police. Shortly before 8 a.m., the 6-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl were crossing in the vicinity of 324 Orms St., which is about 100 yards from the crosswalk at the intersection of Orms, Smith and Candace streets, Police Sgt. Paul Zienowicz said Friday morning. They were running across the street, from the south side to the north side, and crossed behind a dump truck that had stopped in the eastbound lane for the red light further east on Orms, Zienowcz said. That truck obscured the view of the children for the driver of a car that had just turned onto Orms from Smith Street and was traveling west, according to the police. "At the point of the collision, the children actually ran into the side of the car, on the driver's side," Zienowicz said. "It was more they ran into the car than she struck them." The children walk to a nearby bus stop in the Smith Hill neighborhood, east of where they live, according to the police. The police have not yet determined whether the grandmother who typically walks with them was actually with them Friday morning as they crossed the street, Zienowicz said. The children suffered non life-threatening injuries, Zienowicz said. He refused to identify the children because they are juveniles. He said they attend the Robert F. Kennedy Elementary School in Mount Pleasant, a K-6 school located at 195 Nelson St. The driver of the Subaru Outback -- Laura Levine, 36, who lives on Providence's East Side -- faces no charges, Zienowicz said. She has an active license, the vehicle is properly registered, and her insurance is active, he said. "She didn't hit the kids," he said. "The kids ran into her." The police post a crossing guard at the busy intersection of Orms, Smith and Candace streets. Zienowicz said the city's crossing guards are trained to help anyone at the intersection cross, not just the elementary school students for whom they are specifically posted to help. "However, they're implicitly instructed not to leave their crosswalk if someone is going to cross not in the crosswalk," he said. That would leave the crosswalk open -- without anyone helping walkers in it -- as a potential danger for those using the crosswalk, he said. The children were not near the crosswalk when they ran across the street Friday morning, Zienowicz said, prompting him to issue a safety warning to parents of school-aged children as they walk to bus stops and school. "We encourage and implore any parent or guardian walking their children to school to please utilize crosswalks and crossing guards when they are present," Zienowicz said. This entry was first published at 8:26 a.m. and was updated at 11:41 a.m. 
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