#5TH GRADER CALLS 911 ON DRUNK BUS TRIAL#

'This incident we take very seriously and our number one priority is safety and security for our kids,' Rick Parrish, a spokesperson for the Longview School district said of the incident. Watch live: Forensic pathologist testifies in trial for the death of Manuel Ellis in Tacoma, Wash. Police have said more charges are expected to be filed against Maccarone.

Officers, however, said they could smell an 'obvious' odor coming from the 48-year-old. Maccarone told police she had not run any red lights while driving the bus, adding that her behavior may have been because of anti-anxiety and sleep medication she was taking at the time. That drink my uncle made must have had some kick in it,' Maccarone told police after she was arrested. 'There is no way that cheap beer is still in my system.

#5TH GRADER CALLS 911 ON DRUNK BUS DRIVERS#

When police pulled her over, Maccarone's Breathalyzer results showed she had a blood-alcohol content of 0.096 percent, more than double the 0.04 legal limit for bus drivers in Washington. A 10-year-old boy in California called 911 from his school bus on Monday afternoon after he and his classmates began experiencing a scary ride. The fifth-grader, who went to an elementary school in California, was one of 30 kids on the bus. Her breath sort of smelled like alcohol,' the boy who called 911 told the dispatcher. Troy Luna was on his bus ride on a Monday afternoon in 2019. The driver apologized to the bus the next day (completely sober), but some kid must’ve told someone because we had a new driver the day after. Longview police officers smelled 'an obvious odor of intoxicants coming from Maccarone' before. and there’s still kids on there.' The driver, Catherine Maccarone, was arrested after the call on Sept. The girls scream, enraging the driver (who stopped the bus, stood up and told us all to shut the fuck up). ''She was drunk,' the 5th grader told a 911 dispatcher.

#5TH GRADER CALLS 911 ON DRUNK BUS WINDOWS#

The younger students who were on Maccarone's bus during the day of her arrest also seemed to sense something was wrong. Kids’ heads bouncing off the windows and shit. ‘She was drunk,’ 5th-grader tells 911 about his school bus driver, Washington cops say By Don Sweeney Updated Septem9:25 AM Rochelle Fischer shares her story about the night. I am so fun crazy because I love life,' she says in the video.

#5TH GRADER CALLS 911 ON DRUNK BUS FULL#

He's a good driver.The video starts with Maccarone alone, saying she drives buses because her marriage 'sucks' and her husband is 'a son of a gun.' Later, she can be seen addressing the bus full of students, seeming to slur her words as she calls herself 'crazy' and tells them she graduated from college three separate times. 'He's been on my lap driving country roads, pulling into driveways since about 4 years old. 'We've got a little hero,' Dillon's dad said. 'When you have an anchor like Dillon taking care of business on the bus, it really and truly was a good day for us.'ĭillon declined to speak to reporters Thursday, but his parents, Steve and Ireta Reeves, were proud. 'I don't know that it could have gone any better,' Livernois said, noting that adults helped kids out the back door. news School bus driver in Washington arrested after 5th-grader calls 911 to say she's. Shortly after 8:15 a.m., the calls to 911 flooded in. 'Oh my god the bus is on its top,' one 911 caller stated. Seconds later, Dillon jumped into action, hitting the brake pedal and clutching the steering wheel. School bus driver in Washington arrested after 5th-grader calls 911 to say she's 'drunk' U.S. Calls to 911 detail the horrific moments the crash happened. The video shows the driver fanning herself with a baseball cap and informing the transportation office that she needed to pull over. The incident was recorded on a video camera just above the driver. 'In my 35-plus years of education, this was an extraordinary act of courage and maturity on his part,' said Robert Livernois, superintendent of Warren Consolidated Schools. Now!' seventh-grader Dillon Reeves shouted to dozens of other middle-school kids on the bus Wednesday.ĭillon was hailed as a hero: He stopped the bus as it was veering toward oncoming traffic. Warren Consolidated Schools Superintendent Robert Livernois is calling it an 'extraordinary act of courage.' AP-YonhapĪ boy grabbed the steering wheel on a school bus and hit the brakes, bringing the vehicle to a safe stop on a busy Detroit-area road after the driver passed out, according to local authorities. Seventh-grader Dillon Reeves grabs the steering wheel on his school bus and hits the brakes after the driver passed out, April 28, in Warren, Mi., in this image captured from video.

5th grader calls 911 on drunk bus