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Texting while driving with kids on board is not only dangerous, it's stupid. Credit: AP
Here's the scoop, moms, dads and bus drivers everywhere: Texting while driving with kids on board is not only dangerous, it's stupid -- especially if you're under police surveillance.
Just ask the Trumbell, Conn., school bus driver arrested this week after police cameras caught her texting 1,068 messages (to be precise), NBCConnecticut.com reports.
"It's complicated" is an understatement in describing how cops busted Evelyn Guzman, 47.
Almost a year after her daughter, Jennifer Davila, 24, was arrested for assaulting a special needs student on her mom's school bus in May 2010, detectives were reviewing surveillance video they had captured from April 6 through May.
Lo and behold, they not only verified Davila, the bus monitor at the time, assaulting a student passenger, but there was Guzman texting away behind the wheel, according to the local NBC channel.
Guzman turned herself into authorities earlier this week and has been charged with risk of injury to a minor and reckless endangerment. She is free on $1,500 bond and is scheduled to appear in court March 25, police tell NBC.
Texting while driving a bus is nothing new. Remember the San Antonio bus driver with a bus of disable passengers who was caught pulling out a cell phone and then slamming into a car? No one was hurt, but the driver lost his job, according to Switched.com.
And, earlier this month, an Oak Hill, Ohio, group of concerned parents approached the school district with cell phone video captured by students showing their bus driver texting while they were en route to school, WSAZ reports.
The driver has been put on administrative leave as the school district investigates, according to the channel.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
3-20-2011 @ 6:30PM
amaya said...i'm glad this driver got caught and in trouble for putting so may lives at risk. this is a bad example he's setting for the kids too. people are risking lives everyday using cellphones in the car. if you're a passenger, and not distracting the driver, fine - text and talk away. But if you're driving, especially with passengers [not to mention other vehicles on the road], skip endangering all those innocent people!!!!! Drive safe and spend smart - Http://bit.ly/savingtips And think about your life and other people's before you pick up that cell when you're behind the wheel.
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3-21-2011 @ 11:52AM
Jerome Crosson said...Administrative leave ? Punishment should be (1) jail time (2) fired
(3) permanent loss of CDL (4) permanent ban from public employment in the State where this happened. School districts should follow up by banning cell phones from all classrooms, and suspending the kids who violate this rule more than once. Don't talk to me about "perpetrators rights" !
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4-11-2011 @ 10:50AM
beverly said...Administrative leave?! How much more proof do they need than pictures of her caught in the act...1068 times?
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