A woman Cobb Police said was injured in a pedestrian crash in a carpool lane at Brumby Elementary School in April has been charged with reckless conduct. 
Shumeka Lana Johnson, 35, was hospitalized after the April 22 incident when a minor behind the wheel of her Chrysler Pacifica accidentally put the vehicle into drive, according to the initial police report.
Johnson had left the vehicle for an unknown reason, police said at the time, when it struck “and landed on top of her,” then went into reverse and crashed into a parked, unoccupied car.
In a warrant filed last week, police said that Johnson “did endanger the bodily safety” of her minor daughter, who was operating the vehicle.
“The vehicle did not have an adult inside the vehicle but was occupied by 2 juvenile siblings, ages 4 years old and 6 months old,” according to the warrant, which said that the 13-year-old “accelerated the vehicle forward,” striking Johnson and with the vehicle’s front right tire landing on her.
The warrant alleges that Johnson engaged in a misdemeanor act of reckless conduct “by consciously disregarding a substantial and unjustifiable risk that her act or omission would endanger the safety of said person and such disregard constituted a gross deviation from the standard of care which a reasonable person would have exercised in the situation.”
The following day at a Cobb Board of Education meeting, Superintendent Chris Ragsdale commented on the incident, saying that Johnson was “seriously injured” and that it was a “miracle” and that while she is recovering, “it’s a long road ahead.”
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