The family of an autistic Boston Public Schools student is suing the district’s transportation contractor for more than $20 million after he and a school aide were hit by a school bus while walking on the sidewalk in Jamaica Plain .

Reginald Oates Jr., 8, was walking on a sidewalk outside the Curley K-8 School on Dec. 6 when a stationary school bus, driven by Vitnoy Laguerre, pulled up onto the sidewalk and into the school yard, according to a complaint filed in Suffolk Superior Court Tuesday.

Reginald Oates and Cynthia Davis. Courtesy of Sweeney Merrigan.

Both Laguerre and Transdev, the bus operator, are named as defendants in the lawsuit. Transdev is accused of “gross negligence” by not supervising or training its employees as well as “systemic safety failures,” according to a re

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