The search continues for a hit run driver who left a 13-year-old Clayton Middle school girl hospitalized with serious injuries.

Maria Taylor suffered a broken jaw and leg after she was hit while crossing McLemore Road about 6:30 Thursday morning.

Neighbors in the subdivision where Taylor lives are outraged.

"What happened this morning should have never happened," said neighbor Ron Perry. "A big yellow school bus, with red lights flashing. If you can't see that, you shouldn't be driving."

The accident happened during a time when heavy fog was blanketing the area, and the bus was stopped with its light's flashing.

"A dark colored SUV came around the corner, struck the child and left the scene," said Trooper Daniel Sharpe.

Sharpe said when that driver is caught, he or she faces some serious charges.

"As of right now, a hit and run with the seriousness of this injury would be a felony hit-run," said Sharpe

Like other students who catch a school bus from that neighborhood, Taylor had to cross busy McLemore Road. Neighbors say the school bus stop on that street, where the speed limit is 55 miles an hour, has always been as point of concern.

"It's a pretty bad intersection," said neighbor William Abbott. "To me it would be better if they're picked up on this side of the street or in the development."

But right now, neighborhood pickup isn't an option.

"It's not a state street, so all the kids have to walk from the cul-de-sac and up to the main highway," explained Ron Perry. " I don't know why they just don't go ahead and make this a state street so the bus can come down into the neighborhood."

In fact, Perry said he feels so strongly about the issue that he intends to go to the next meeting of the Clayton town council and try and get that street designed as proper road so that school busses can enter it for pick-ups.