A\u00a0Pennsylvania school bus driver\u00a0is accused of driving 54 elementary school children while over four times the legal alcohol limit, authorities said, after reports she was swerving through traffic and nearly hitting vehicles before the bus ended up in a snowbank.<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Douglass Township Police Chief Robert B. Evans announced an arrest warrant for Kelly Weber, 46, of Boyertown.<\/p>\n
Weber is charged with driving under the influence, 54 counts each of endangering the welfare of children and reckless endangerment and related summary offenses.<\/p>\n
Authorities said police were alerted around 4 p.m. Feb. 6 that a\u00a0school bus was driving erratically\u00a0and narrowly missing other vehicles.<\/p>\n
A\u00a0responding officer\u00a0later found the bus stopped in a snowbank.<\/p>\n
Investigators said officers found an open 750ml\u00a0bottle of Tito\u2019s vodka, two empty 50ml bottles and a receipt showing the alcohol was purchased earlier that morning.<\/p>\n
According to authorities, a blood test showed Weber\u2019s\u00a0blood alcohol concentration\u00a0was .331%, more than four times the legal limit of .08%, and detected Delta-9 Carboxy THC.<\/p>\n
Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin R. Steele and Douglass Township Police Chief Robert B. Evans announced an arrest warrant for Kelly Weber, 46, of Boyertown. 6abc Philadelphia<\/p>\n
Weber is charged with driving under the influence, 54 counts each of endangering the welfare of children and reckless endangerment and related summary offenses. 6abc Philadelphia<\/p>\n
Investigators said\u00a054 children\u00a0were on the bus, including five younger than 6.<\/p>\n
Several children called or texted their parents during the ride because they were frightened by the driving, and one child exited at an earlier stop and was picked up by his parents, authorities said.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore than 50 young children were in a dangerous situation created by this defendant, who chose to consume a significant amount of alcohol and then get behind the wheel of a school bus and drive miles while intoxicated,\u201d Steele said. \u201cWe are all thankful that this defendant didn\u2019t crash the bus and cause further harm to these children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Investigators said officers found an open 750ml\u00a0bottle of Tito\u2019s vodka, two empty 50ml bottles and a receipt showing the alcohol was purchased earlier that morning. Irik \u2013 stock.adobe.com<\/p>\n
Weber checked herself into a rehabilitation facility after the incident, authorities said.<\/p>\n
She is expected to\u00a0turn herself in for arraignment, at which time bail will be set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A\u00a0Pennsylvania school bus driver\u00a0is accused of driving 54 elementary school children while over four times the legal alcohol…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129177,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[37825,28,30,29,302],"class_list":["post-129176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pennsylvania","tag-drunk-driving","tag-pennsylvania","tag-pennsylvania-headlines","tag-pennsylvania-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}