Infant Crushed to Death by Pole Knocked Over in Crash Reena Rose Sibayan/The Jersey Journal, via Associated Press Officers at the scene of a bus accident in West New York, N.J., in which a baby girl was killed in her carriage by a falling lamppost. An 8-month-old girl was killed on Tuesday in West New York, N.J., after a commuter bus whose driver was using a cellphone crashed into a lamppost, causing it to fall on the infant's carriage, the authorities said. The child, identified by a family friend as Angelie Paredes, and her mother, Maylin Paredes, were waiting at a bus stop at John F. Kennedy Boulevard East and 54th Street around 12:45 p.m. when the driver lost control of the bus, hit another vehicle and then veered off the road, said Sheriff Frank X. Schillari of the Hudson County sheriff's office. The bus then struck four parked cars, the sheriff said, adding that four passengers in one of the cars had minor injuries. "The pole fell on the carriage, crushing the baby," Sheriff Schillari said. It's a terrible tragedy. The child's mother was not physically injured. The bus driver, identified by the sheriff's office as Idowu Daramola, 48, of Thornwood, N.Y., was charged on Tuesday night with death by auto, reckless driving and using a cellphone while operating a vehicle. He was being held Tuesday night in $250,000 bail. Jose Serra, 45, of West New York, said he saw the bus stopped at a red light close to the bus stop just before the crash. When the light turned green, he said, the bus's wheels spun and it lurched forward, first striking the car in front of it and then ramming the lamppost and the parked cars before coming to a stop. Then, he said, he heard the screams of the child's mother: "The woman was bent down, crying, "My baby, my baby." " The bus driver briefly exited the bus and looked around nervously, Mr. Serra said. He then re-entered the bus, staying there until the police arrived, Mr. Serra said. Mr. Serra said a police officer gave the baby mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and then carried the baby to an ambulance, followed by the sobbing mother. Both were taken to Jersey City Medical Center, where the child was pronounced dead. Sheriff Schillari said the bus belonged to a shuttle company that takes commuters between New Jersey and New York. On Tuesday night, there was a memorial of candles, flowers and stuffed animals at the site of the accident. The family friend, Julio Marenco, who was at the Paredes family home in nearby North Bergen on Tuesday night, said in a phone interview that other close friends and family had gathered there. "Right now we're grieving," Mr. Marenco said by telephone. We're trying to put the pieces back together here.