February 2, 2005
Drinking bus driver arrested after student calls 911 from cell phone
A school bus driver who had been drinking was tracked down by authorities after one of his passengers called 911 from a cell phone and reported the man was asleep at the wheel. [via CBS New York]
"For 38 minutes, as he rode through neighborhoods, the boy told 911 where the bus was and what the driver was doing.
He said the driver was speeding and going over speed humps without slowing. At one point, the boy told 911, the driver stopped the bus, took a call on a cell phone, then started driving again.
The boy stayed on the telephone until police cars were behind the bus.
Wallace was released from jail on a $1,000 bond."
Related:
-- Phone limits for bus drivers - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in September 2004 signed a bill making it illegal to use a cell phone while driving a school bus or other public-transit vehicle, California's first restriction on mobile phones behind the wheel.
-- Deckhands suspended for talking on cellphones - Crew members of the Staten Island Ferry have been suspended for chatting instead of patroling the boat.
-- Red light railman 'using mobile' - It is claimed the driver of the Norwich to London train was talking on the phone at the time of the incident on 29 December 2003, at Claydon, near Ipswich, Suffolk. The train ran for nearly a mile past the red light before stopping.
-- Subway driver suspended for texting while operating trains - A Japanese subway train driver was handed a 4 month suspension from duty, for having sent an e-mail via his mobile phone while operating a train.
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