MIRAMAR, Fla. -- Police say a woman with a troubled past was killed Monday morning when she was struck by a school bus.

Nora Montano, 35, was hit and killed by a bus while riding her bicycle at the intersection of Miramar Parkway and Dykes Road.

Montano was airlifted to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, where she later died.

The bus was carrying students from Everglades High School, but no one on board was injured.

"According to the bus driver, the light was green," Miramar police spokesman Bill Robertson said.

The Broward School District said the bus driver, Joseph Valburn, has been driving for the district since November 2002 and he has an "excellent record." He is being given a break from driving the buswhile it is determined if he would like counseling to deal with the incident.

In 2003, Montano Arrested After Abducting Children

Montano was in the news in June 2003 when she and her ex-husband committed a violent home break-in and kidnapped her two children

The children, ages 2 and 3 at the time, were snatched from the Miramar home of their grandmother, Nora Sarria, who has permanent custody of the two children.

Police said Nora and Jose Montano crashed a vehicle through a sliding glass door of the home. Jose Montano, wearing camouflage and a ski mask, wrestled the children away from their 25-year-old aunt Karla Sarria and the children's grandmother.

Following a nationwide Amber Alert, police found the children 16 hours later and 468 miles away, at a motel in Bonifay, a remote Florida Panhandle town.

Bonifay police said the family was heading to Texas because they were driving a Chevy truck with Texas plates. Nora Montano was in the Army and was stationed at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.

Investigators said that before she abducted the children, Nora Montano had a troubled past. Nora Sarria had obtained a restraining order against her daughter in 2002 because, she said, Montano was aggressive and had threatened her.

Sarria said her daughter was mentally ill and suffered from bi-polar disorder. Montano had been treated for mental illness for a period of about 10 years, according to her mother.

Nora and Jose Montano were charged with parental kidnapping, armed burglary of an occupied dwelling and criminal mischief. Jose Montano is also charged with battery.

Montano Found Not Guilty By Reason Of Insanity

Local has learned Montano had been living in a group home in Lauderhill as part of her sentence in the kidnapping. According to her attorney, Montano had been doing very well in the home and had a "180-degree turnaround" after the sentencing.

According to her attorney, about 30 days ago, something had gone wrong at the home and Montano was admitted for psychiatric evaluation under the Baker Act. The Florida Baker Act allows people with mental or emotional problems to be involuntarily admitted for evaluation and treatment.

The group home she had been staying in had refused to take her back, and her guardian ad litem was in the process of helping her find a new home when she was killed.

Miramar police said that Montano was staying with a caregiver in Miramar since the Baker Act evaluation.

Investigators said that it appeared that Montano was returning from a shopping center around the corner from where she was staying and she was headed back to the residence when she was hit.

Police said she had just seen her children on Saturday -- her first visitation in years.