HARRISON CITY, Pa. – A former bus driver in Pennsylvania’s Penn-Trafford school district faces criminal charges for asking a student passenger to remove a live power wire that fell on a bus earlier this month.

Patricia J. Ryan, 60, was hauling students along Route 130 April 15 when a goose hit a power line onto the bus and knocked out power to the area, police told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.

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Penn Township police officer James Kowalczuk wrote in a criminal complaint that Ryan asked the five students on the bus if one of them would remove the wire, and an 11-year-old student was injured attempting to do so, CBS Pittsburgh reports.

“The victim stated that he volunteered to go remove the wire and he got burned on his right hand,” Kowalczuk wrote, according to the Tribune-Review. “The victim stated that after he was burned, he got back on the bus and the bus driver kept asking if he was OK.”

Kowalczuk said video surveillance on the bus confirms the boy’s story.

“The driver can be heard speaking into the bus radio, advising that power transformers had blown and wires were down on the roadway,” he wrote in the complaint. “Patricia Ryan can be heard stating, ‘You know what … can one of you get out and move the wire off the (bus)?”

The video shows the student leave the bus and return rubbing his right hand.

“It shocked me,” Tyler Cunningham, the student involved, told WTAE. “It got me right there, on the thumb.”

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Ryan allegedly did not divulge the boy’s injury or what happened to school, police or power company officials that responded to the scene and eventually freed the bus.

Ryan was later terminated by First Student Bus Co., a district contractor, and now stands charged with endangering the welfare of a child, and reckless endangerment.

The former bus driver had nothing to say to the media other than she “never intended to hurt anyone,” according to the Tribune-Review.

District superintendent Matthew Harris notified parents about what occurred the day of the incident.

“The wires were quickly removed and the school van proceeded to transport all of the children to school. From the time of the incident and leading up to the arrival of these students at school, there was nothing that had been observed by those of us who had responded to cause reason for concern,” Harris wrote in a letter to parents.

“However, it was subsequently learned from the students who were on that van that while the van was situated under the fallen wires, and prior to the time of any of the responders were on site, the driver asked if any of the students would be willing to exit the van to check the wires. One student elected to do what was being requested.”

Cunningham’s mother told WTAE she’s happy to see Ryan face criminal charges for putting her son’s life at risk.

“I’m glad because she needs to be held responsible for her actions,” she said. “She should have never asked a kid to get off the bus, at all.”

“I want to see her lose her license to drive a bus. I don’t think she should ever be allowed to drive a bus again.”