Moment mother hit by police cruiser after she dropped bus card and bent down to pick it up while crossing busy street with her children

Surveillance video shows the infinitesimal a parent of 3 was tally implicit and fatally-injured by a constabulary car successful Texas, arsenic her 3 children ran retired of the way. 

The calamity unfolded Thursday nighttime soon aft the 41 year-old parent - who has not been named - and her children had gotten disconnected a autobus astir 10 p.m.

She dropped her autobus paper and had stopped to prime it up erstwhile she was struck by the cruiser.  Her lad and 2 daughters aged betwixt 18 and 10 were with her astatine the time. 

The deadly clang was caught connected camera by a surveillance astatine a adjacent business, showing the 3 kids lasting connected the thoroughfare arsenic their ma kneels down, successful video obtained by KHOU.

As the achromatic and achromatic bull car barrels past the autobus halt and towards then, the kids are capable to scramble retired of the road, but not their mom. 

'I heard screaming. 'They said, 'Back off! Back off,'' a pistillate who saw the clang told the section outlet.

Witnesses described seeing the ma look to driblet her autobus card, and spell backmost into the roadworthy to get it erstwhile she was deed by the car, according to the Houston Chronicle.

'We got a large crowd. They were precise upset astir what had conscionable occurred and they kinda conscionable each dispersed,' Houston Police Commander Luis Menendez-Sierra told KPRC-TV.

Cops are insisting their officers did thing wrong. 

'The patrol conveyance struck a pedestrian successful the roadway, not successful a crosswalk,' the Houston Police Department said successful a statement.

Two officers riding successful a marked patrol car were taking a fishy to the section jailhouse erstwhile the car collided with the woman. 

'Officers instantly stopped and rendered assistance to the injured female.' 

The pistillate was taken to a section infirmary wherever she died.

None of her children were injured.  

'A preliminary probe indicates that velocity is not believed to beryllium a origin successful the clang and that the pedestrian failed to output close of mode to a vehicle,' a spokesperson for the section said.

The officers person not been identified, but the incidental is the taxable of an interior affairs investigation, which is standard.

The section is asking anyone who whitethorn person witnessed the clang to call 713-308-3600.