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Georgia school bus driver arrested for DUI caught on camera

Georgia school bus driver arrested for DUI caught on camera
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Words cannot describe the feeling some parents got watching video of their children riding on a school bus driven by an alleged drunk driver.

“Oh my God, did you see the bus the way it’s swerving?” parent Katrina Drlik asked. “Oh my God, that car had to literally go on the grass.”

Dash cam video shows Carole Ann Etheridge crossing the center line into on-coming traffic several times as children on board screamed in their seats.

At one point, Etheridge stopped in the middle of the road, and she even missed the main entrance to the middle school, telling students she wasn’t feeling well.

“It’s hard not to go into tears right now. It’s hard to imagine what these kids went through,” Drlik said.

 

Students contacted their parents, who then notified the school system. Minutes later, Etheridge was pulled off the bus at Loganville Middle School in Walton County, Georgia and ordered to see a school resource officer, where she blew a .089 on her initial breathalyzer test.

Ally Jackson’s brother was one of those young children on the bus and knew something was wrong.

“There needs to be consequences for her actions,” Jackson said. “He told me we were all scared, she was swerving all over the place, kept hitting the brakes for no reason and the video just proves it.”

Etheridge was fired after being charged with DUI while driving 31 children to school, and 16 counts of child endangerment for every one of them under the age of 14.

“I’ve got chills watching this video. I want to start crying right now,” Drlik said.

Investigators say Etheridge still blew more than a .04 three to four hours after her initial breathalyzer test. The legal limit for bus drivers in Georgia is .04.

Parents are now considering legal action.

 

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