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A State Police accident reconstruction team member examines the front of a bus at the scene of an accident that claimed the life of Abraham Espinoza, 2, Sept. 30, 2008.

AMHERST - No charges will be filed in the September 2008 death of a toddler who was struck and killed by a school bus, according to the Amherst Police Department.

Two-year-old Abraham Espinoza was killed Sept. 30 near the corner of Summer Street and Montague Road in North Amherst. The accident took place around 8 a.m., while the child was at the bus stop with his mother and older sister, a student at Mark's Meadow Elementary School.

In a prepared release, Amherst police Lt. Ronald Young said that no criminal charges will be filed against bus driver, Robert Vallee, of 211 Batchelor St., Granby, who was at the wheel when the boy died.

Young said that the decision was based on facts gathered by the Amherst police, the Northwestern district attorney's office, the office of the chief medical examiner and the Massachusetts State Police Collision Reconstruction Team.