Posted on November 19, 2010, 9:46 AM, by Text'nDrive, under
In the news.
One would think that the person driving your kids to school puts their safety at the top of their list. Seems one employee of the Rockingham County Schools put her personal interest before the children’s need.
A full-time employee working as a bus driver for Draper Elementary School, in North Carolina, was removed from her duties [...]
Lawmakers in Florida still can’t agree on a bill to prohibit texting while driving. It didn’t stop the Lee County School District to make a move, though.
Last March, the district put a policy in place that banned all school employees from texting while driving a school district vehicle or a personal vehicle while on district [...]
In June 2008, a San Antonio, Texas bus driver was filmed texting for 6 minutes before slamming his bus into the rear of an SUV. And this isn’t an isolated case.
In September 2008, a train driver killed 25 people, including him, and injured 135 others when his Metrolink commuter train plowed into a Union Pacific [...]