A 54-year-old woman was struck and killed in a Kalihi crosswalk by a Roberts Hawaii school bus this morning and remained pinned under the bus for more than an hour after the collision.

The crash occurred at 6:06 a.m. at North School Street and Gulick Avenue. The woman was pronounced dead at the scene at 6:20 a.m., according to Bryan Cheplic, spokesman for the city's emergency services department.
The bus driver and an aide were heading to make their first pick-up of the morning of nine public school children with special needs, said Roberts Hawaii spokesman Wally Zimmermann. When the crash occurred, only the driver and an aide were on the bus, Zimmermann said.
Sandy Goya, spokeswoman for the state Department of Education, confirmed that no students were on the bus at the time of the crash .
The driver was a woman in her 30s, said Honolulu police Lt. Darren Izumo of HPD’s vehicular homicide division.
The driver has been with Roberts for two years and has a “clean record,” Zimmermann said. Following standard company procedure, Roberts officials administered an alcohol test after the crash, which was negative, Zimmermann said.
The results of a blood test looking for possible drugs won’t come back until tomorrow or the next day, he said.
The bus was turning ewa onto North School street when it hit the woman in the crosswalk, Izumo said.
It was unclear which direction the pedestrian was traveling in, he said.
Four Honolulu fire units were called to extract the woman’s body from the bus.
The accident temporarily forced the closure of North School Street and Gulick Avenue in both directions and traffic was routed onto Kino Street and Gulick Avenue.