Driver Stops For Smoke Before Helping Boy

Eyewitnesses said the driver was flying down the road and illegally passed a stopped school bus in a gravel road in Maple Valley.

The car was traveling so fast the boy's backpack became lodged in the car's mirror.

Nine-year-old Levi McMasters still remembers the speeding car that plowed into him as he got off the bus in front of his Maple Valley home.

"The bus driver yelled stop, then I walked and turned around and waved and saw the car coming," McMasters said.

Witnesses said the driver in a silver 2000 Toyota Corolla ignored the school bus's flashing red lights and stop sign and passed the bus on the right, on the gravel shoulder, traveling 50 miles an hour

"Then I got up and then my leg was just like wiggling. Then I just dropped to the ground," he said.

Authorities say the driver of the car continued down the street for several blocks before turning around.

Eyewitnesses say the driver seemed "unfazed" and took time to light up a cigarette and smoke half of it before getting out of her car.

"She didn't bother to say sorry or anything."

The accident put Levi in the hospital with a broken leg, forcing him to be in casts and a wheelchair for months.