Mount Prospect, IL (The Weekly Vice) - Betty Burden, a 54-year-old school bus driver was jailed after she allegedly drove a school bus while intoxicated - with approximately 50 elementary students on board.
According to Mount Prospect police, one of Burden's co-workers smelled alcohol on her breath before the buses left the school around 2:30 p.m.
Transportation Coordinator Vince Ramirez boarded Burden's bus as she arrived at her first stop. He stated that he did not smell alcohol on her breath and allowed her to continue her route, following behind her and notifying the police.
Officers did smell alcohol on Burden's breath when she was finally pulled over, after delivering about 50 Lions Park Elementary School children to their homes. Burden registered a .230 B.A.C. on a test administered at the scene, and a .226 on a test given to her at the police station. She admitted to investigators that she had been drinking vodka and orange juice during lunch.
Burden, who has no criminal background and has been a bus driver for District 57 off and on since 1991, was suspended from her driving position without pay.
Burden was booked into jail and charged with DUI. Her bond was set at $10,000.
Mandi Milenko
The Weekly Vice
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Drinking my lunch in my favorite bar flat on my back with the jukebox in my head crusing around in my school bus with the kids drinking vodka super star,
can't stand the screaming, can't stand the heat, where the hell is the padded room.
I'm not excusing her but I would probably get hammered if I had that job.
She had been “drinking vodka and orange juice during lunch”… from the look of her BAC a fifth of vodka WAS her lunch,
why would Ramirez allow her to continue if he was doubtful of her sobriety?
Our legislators are raising hell about people texting while driving.
ARE THE POLICE IDIOTS, THEY NEED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL OR START DRINKING. A MUG SHOT WITH GLASSES ON. WHAT'S UP WITH THAT !
why would they let her continue driving if they even had they thought of her being drunk? because he was following her it was some how safer?? is it really that hard to bring a sub with you and let her/him takeover until the issue was resolved.
Maybe this is Otto's Mom and she was just filling in for him on this day!
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