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TERRIFYING DEATH

School bus mows down B’klyn girl, 15

By REUVEN FENTON and AMANDA WOODS awoods@nypost.com

Shocking video captured the moment a 15-year-old girl was fatally 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 teen Antonina Zatulovska was crossing the street.

The bus, driven by Aleksandr Patlakh, 55, strikes Antonina and keeps going — with a rear wheel of the vehicle rolling over the teen, the footage shows.

Cops responded to the accident just after 8 a.m., and Zatulovska, a Coney Island resident and student at James Madison HS, was pronounced dead at the scene.

Her 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.

He could not be reached by The Post.

Antonina’s dad, Boris Zatulovska, 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 dad 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, Zatulovska 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.”

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