COATS (AP) — A 12-year-old Harnett County boy has died after he was struck and killed while trying to get on a school bus.
The boy was struck shortly before 7 a.m. Thursday on N.C. 27 near Coats. The victim was Adam Kempf, a seventh-grader at Coats-Erwin Middle School.
The North Carolina Highway Patrol says the boy was struck by a van as he crossed the road to board the bus. Fernando Ortiz-Soto, 43, of Sanford is charged with felony death by motor vehicle and driving without a license.
Neither Ortiz-Soto nor the other three people in the van were hurt.
There were about two dozen students on the bus. None of them was hurt.