
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, April 1, 1990                   TAG: 9004010171
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B12   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: GLOUCESTER                                LENGTH: Short

CHILD COLLAPSES, DIES, WHILE BOARDING BUS

An autopsy will be performed on an 8-year-old boy who collapsed while boarding a school bus Friday and died, officials said.

Doctors were unsure of the cause of death, said a nursing supervisor at Riverside Middle Peninsula Hospital.

The boy, James Richard Dawson, was a second-grader at Petsworth Elementary School. He had moved to the area a few months ago, said Principal J.D. Briggs.

Briggs said he was called by a teacher about 3:20 p.m. to the bus loading area, where it appeared as though the child had passed out. When Briggs noticed the boy's lips were turning blue, he called a rescue squad and summoned two teachers who gave the child cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

Briggs said that the boy had no health problems or record of illness at Petsworth. "He's a fine little boy," the principal said.

by CNB