Posted on 03/06/2024 12:20:39 PM PST by Morgana
A West Virginia bus driver has been arrested for DUI after flipping it with 19 children on board - before berating cops who rescued them.
Jeffrey Brannon, 54, was charged with multiple counts of driving under the influence causing harm and child neglect resulting in injury, with several of the kids involved hospitalized.
Police were called to Route 16 at 6pm Monday after Brannon tipped over the bus when he lost control over the right edge of the highway and overcorrected.
Cops said that when they arrived he was 'yelling and acting aggressive' while still inside the vehicle, before admitting he was drunk, Trooper Cpl. Brian Young said.
Nineteen students were on the Calhoun County school system bus at the time, with one suffering a vertebrae fracture, one a leg injury, and another a concussion, according to a criminal complaint.
One of the students was rushed to hospital by helicopter and another was taken by ambulance, however the full number and extent of injuries is not known.
Young said that when he went to take Brannon's statement, he smelled alcohol on his breath, and said the driver confessed to being drunk when asked.
A field breath test produced a 0.161% blood alcohol level. Another test at the Grantsville State Police Detachment showed a blood alcohol level of 0.127%.
The legal limit in West Virginia is 0.08%, meaning his blood alcohol was well over double the legal limit at the time of the crash.
Calhoun County Superintendent Michael Fitzwater closed area schools on Tuesday in response to the crash, and said his 'immediate focus is on our students and their well-being.'
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Yes, and the security cameras on the buses are almost always turned off and left off; claimed to be “not working”, ever.
Just give the kids hormone blockers and call it a day. Nobody cares about kids.
He flipped a car with 19 kids inside?
Clown car or Klown editor?
Funny about that.
I bet there are betting pools on how long Jeffrey will be breathing. Hope drunk school bus drivers are fired on the spot, then jailed.
How do you fit 19 children into a car?
It is impossible to get drunk on Bud Light.
16 x counts for each charge of reckless endangerment of children in his custody. He is basically going to jail for (his own safety) for a long time. If those kids live in the mountains he’d be a dead man... driving or walking.
Yeah. Nothing says lovin’ like doing yer cousin!
Mexicans?
You know the diciples were all Mexican right?
Acts 2:1 they were all in one Accord.
Ha!
😂
My kid was driving a fully loaded dump truck a few months ago. An idiot school bus driver pulled out in front of him. My son heroically put himself in grace danger as he swerved to not kill a bunch of kids. He flipped the dump truck and crushed the cab against a guard rail. He was mercifully unharmed.
The idiot bus driver fled the scene. She was later caught and fired. I assume further legal action is in the works to get my son’s employer a new dump truck.
I used to drive buses and fully understand the phenomenal responsibility that entails.
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