According to authorities, a school bus driver passed
out behind the wheel and crashed into a house on Long Island while
children were aboard. The driver, Frederick Flowers, 66, has been arrested and charged with driving while
intoxicated, police said.
He was leaving a
Catholic elementary school, St. Edward the Confessor School, Wednesday afternoon when he had what fire
officials initially referred to as a "medical emergency of some kind"
and veered into the house on Teibrook Avenue at about 3:15 p.m.,
authorities said.
The five children on the bus ranged
in age from 5 to 8, but none was injured, police said.
According to a hospital spokesperson, Flowers remains hospitalized in
serious but stable condition at Nassau University Medical Center.
The Massapequa Park man was charged
with five counts each of aggravated driving while intoxicated under
Leandra's Law, endangering the welfare of a child, reckless endangerment
and two counts of driving while intoxicated. He will be arraigned in
his hospital bed Thursday afternoon.
Flowers worked for the First Student
bus company of Freeport, according to Nassau County police. The school
where he drove to pick up kids said there had been no previous issues
with the driver.
"There were no indications of any
problems with this driver," said a school spokesman. "There were no
problems before the crash."
Homeowner Dan Percell, whose house Flowers crashed into, called the situation "disgusting."
"His job was to make sure the kids got home safetly," Percell said.
Percell's wife Christina had been at
the bank with her daughter when the incident happened. She returned to
find her house of 15 years destroyed.
"We got out of the car, and we see
that there's a school bus in the garage," she told NBC 4 New York.
"Totally, totally shocked."
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