NY State bus driver crackdown, which has been going on since the March 12 fatal Bronx bus crash, has now caught city school bus drivers. According to WABC 7, "The men, drivers in Queens, had reportedly been driving with suspended licenses, in one instance for more than 15 years. They were picked up by detectives with the Queens District Attorney's Office for obtaining new licenses by submitting false names and different dates of birth and social security numbers to the Department of Motor Vehicles." more ›

The bus driver who was arrested after forgetting about a 3-year-old student left on the bus has received multiple tickets for public drinking, according to the Daily News. Terry Rocker, as well as bus matron Charlene Powell, left autistic Jose Gabriel Lopez (pictured) on a bus for six hours; the child was discovered when his mother went to PS 168 to pick him up--only to be told her son never arrived! The News also reports that Rocker and Powell found the boy on the short bus at "about 1 p.m. and held him for a couple of hours, hoping to bring him back to the school and mix him in with other students without being discovered," but he was found by a teacher after 2 p.m.! Jose's parents decided not to put him on a school bus yesterday. more ›

The school bus driver who apparently dropped off a 5-year-old child at the end of her route--even though he was on the bus by accident and actually lives across from the school--has been suspended without pay as the incident is investigated. The Daily News reports that driver Kimba Ewers claims little Jaeden Vasquez was dropped off with other children and that adults were waiting for them (adults must be present to pick them up at the stop). Ewers's bus company also says the school is at fault, since the child says a school aide told him to get on the bus. The DOE went to supervise dismissal and school bus boarding yesterday--"The kids who belong on the buses are supposed to be checked off as they board." more ›

from P.S. 111, someone put him on a school bus and the driver kicked him off at the last stop. The Daily News reports that the boy attends an after-school program next door in the Bronx--kids line up for the program or buses--but someone put him on a bus. Though the Department of Education says young children should not be let "off the bus unless an adult is waiting," Jaeden was booted off. He ended up asking a (thankfully) nice stranger how to get home, and she ended up taking him back to P.S. 111 in a cab. His mother said, "The school said they were sorry, but sorry wouldn't have replaced my son if he had gotten killed." DOE is investigating and only told the News, "The driver may have done something wrong... This should never have happened." more ›

Authorities have arrested a 62-year-old bus driver after a bus matron allegedly saw him fondling a mentally challenged student. The matron had left the bus to take another student into P.S. 226 in Bensonhurst, and when she returned, she apparently saw Efrim Bondarev's hand down the 14-year-old girl's shirt. Bondarev works for a private bus company contracted by the Department of Education. more ›