Drunken bus driver charged
02/02/2005 - 19:06:56A school bus driver in Charlotte, North Carolina, who had been drinking was tracked down by police after one of his passengers called emergency services from a mobile phone and reported he was asleep at the wheel.
Vernon Tobias Wallace, 23, was charged with driving with alcohol in his system after police and school officials finally found him and pulled over his bus. Another driver finished the route.
None of the 30 or so students was injured.
For 38 minutes, as he rode through neighbourhoods, the boy who made the emergency call told the operator where the bus was and what the driver was doing. He he tried to give the driver the phone, but he wouldn’t take it. “He says he is trying to concentrate,” the boy told the operator.
