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Shocking video shows NYC school bus fatally striking 15-year-old

Shocking video captured the moment a 15-year-old girl was mowed down by a school bus in Brooklyn this week. 

The 20-second clip, obtained by The Post on Tuesday, shows the yellow bus turning the corner at Bedford Avenue and Avenue P in Sheepshead Bay on Monday morning — just as Antonina Zatulovska was crossing the street.

The driver, identified as Aleksandr Patlakh, 55, strikes Antonina and keeps driving — with a rear wheel of the bus rolling over the teen, the footage shows. 

Antonina Zatulovska was crossing the street in Sheepshead Bay when she was struck by the bus.

Cops responded just after 8 a.m., and Zatulovska, a Coney Island resident and student at James Madison High School, was pronounced dead on scene. The high school is located at that intersection, although it was closed at the time for Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Hours later, Patlakh, also of Coney Island, was arrested at Neptune Avenue and West Sixth Street, about a half-mile from his home. 

He was charged with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to use due care and released on a desk-appearance ticket. It remained unclear Tuesday whether Patlakh was aware that he had struck someone.

Police at the scene of the fatal accident on Monday morning. James Messerschmidt for NY Post
Police arrested Aleksandr Patlakh of Coney Island, charging him with failure to yield to a pedestrian and failure to use due care. James Messerschmidt for NY Post

He could not be reached by The Post.

Antonina’s dad, Boris Zatulovksa, 63, described his daughter as “a beautiful girl, innocent, crossing a crosswalk.”

She has two half-brothers in their 30s from her father’s previous marriage, he said.

“Everybody’s crying right now,” he said. “Everybody knew her spark, her smile.

“My wife is doing pretty bad. Everybody’s suffering right now. You couldn’t believe it.”

The bus bus turned the corner at Bedford Avenue and Avenue P in Sheepshead Bay.
Cops responded just after 8 a.m. when Zatulovska was pronounced dead on scene. 

He said that as an Uber driver, he knows the area well and “can’t imagine that people drive like this in New York.

“People can’t drive like this in the city, a school area, making this turn,” he said. “He killed my daughter in one second. … Everybody knows you have to slow [down] by a school. You can’t make people have to jump out of the way.”

Meanwhile, he described the police conducting the investigation as “very good, very supportive.

“They’ve giving me any information, any possible support,” the teen’s dad said. “They’re great guys.”

The family is planning a Jewish funeral for Antonina, he said.