Drunk Driver Crashed School Bus With Children On Board

This seems to be happening a lot lately.. 47-year-old James Sommer was a Long Island school bus driver who crashed his bus while driving for a field trip. He had a group of 7th graders and a teacher from Plainedge Middle School on board at the time of the incident. Luckily nobody was seriously hurt, but a 12-year-old girl was taken to a nearby hospital for minor injuries.

Sommer was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated with a child passenger 15 years or younger (Leandra's Law), driving while intoxicated while operating a school bus with students on board, and endangering the welfare of a child.

Another school bus driver was arrested Oct. 11when he crashed an empty school bus near 60 of the Long Island Expressway in Ronkonkoma. Police found an open bottle of vodka on the bus. 

On Oct. 4, a school bus driver crashed into a home just after leaving a Catholic elementary school with five children on board. He was arrested the next day on several charges. 

Check out the links for information on the other two school bus stories, and click the link below to watch videos for them, as well as check out the original Sommer's article.

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