Bus driver charged after brake-checking young students

Bus driver charged after brake-checking young students
A US bus driver has been charged with 30 counts of kid abuse after he intentionally hit the brakes to show the younger passengers aboard his car a lesson.

Footage from the bus confirmed the first school-aged youngsters on the college bus in Colorado being shoved ahead violently by the impression of the bus abruptly stopping.

“You guys need to be in your seats,” Fitzgerald could be heard saying.

The students were flung forward when the bus driver brake-checked them.
The college students had been flung ahead when the bus driver brake-checked them. (KRDO)

“You guys want to see how dangerous that is.”

Footage from the bus confirmed many of the youngsters sitting down, however some had been standing up of their seats as they spoke to different pupils round them.

Fitzgerald has since written an apology letter after complaints from mother and father.

In the letter he started by speaking about how messy the bus was when he arrived at work, and the way the petrol tank was solely a quarter-full.

His apology didn’t come till the fourth paragraph of the letter, earlier than which he had aired plenty of grievances about his day.

“I am sincerely sorry for my choice of actions today in my efforts of training students,” he mentioned.

He has since been charged with 30 counts of kid abuse by police, together with one depend of kid abuse with bodily accidents.

That cost carries a most sentence of 364 days in jail.

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Source: www.9news.com.au