ALFRED, N.Y. (Associated Press) – A former western New York school bus driver has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for being drunk behind the wheel during a chaotic ride captured on the vehicle’s surveillance video.
Martha Thompson of Almond was also sentenced Monday in Allegany County Court to six months of electronic home monitoring and fined $1,000. She pleaded guilty Nov. 2 to driving while intoxicated and 37 counts of reckless endangerment, one for each of the Alfred-Almond school district students she transported on May 8.
The video from the bus shows several teenage girls pleading with Thompson to pull over after she missed a turn and drove the bus in reverse. The girls then led some of the younger students out the back of the bus as the 56-year-old Thompson yells at them to remain on board.
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Holy cow…I can’t believe that. Those girls did a heck of a job trying to take control of the situation like that. They should be recognized!
Yeah they did take control of the situation. Did you notice that the name on the back of that one girls shirt is ‘Thompson’?