A little girl is recovering after being dragged more than a thousand feet by a school bus in Louisville, Kentucky last week.

Officials say the girl, who is either 5 or 6 years old, was dragged after her backpack got caught in the bus doors as the driver was dropping her off on Friday afternoon. The driver then took off without realizing that half of her body was still inside of the bus, while her legs were being dragged on the street.

"Apparently her backpack got stuck in the door," Louisville Metro Police Department spokesperson Dwight Mitchell told ABC News. "The bus driver didn't know that," and the girl was dragged by a Jefferson County Public School bus, he said.

Tom Carman's home surveillance cameras captured a few moments from the horrific incident on video.

"When I first saw it on my camera I thought 'oh my gosh.' How can a bus driver not pay attention to the children around him, right outside of his own door, and it is made of clear glass?" Carman said, reports WLKY.

According to Brian Burlison, the girl's babysitter, the driver "should have watched the girl walk up the driveway before she pulled off" from in front of his home.

According to ABC News, Esther Karschner, a bystander, witnessed the bus as it drove with the girl's legs dragging along the floor. She said a car had sped alongside the bus, sounding its horn in an effort to get it to stop.

"I saw a car go flying by behind the bus real fast," Karschner said. "Shortly after the car stopped the bus. Her bookbag was caught on the bottom of the door when she got out.

"The bus driver got out and they called the police," she said. "It wasn't a very pretty sight."

Karschner said that "Her little legs, hardly any skin left on one of them."

Burlison added that "her shoes was off, her pants got ripped off it was just horrible to see her like that on the ground," Burlison said.

Another child described the incident: "She was screaming and kicking and we was all afraid, thinking did that just really happen?" said student Tyshon Smith.

Witnesses told WLKY that the female bus driver was very upset once she realized what happened.

Meanwhile, the child was transported to Kosair Children's Hospital to receive treatment for non-life threatening injuries.