Cops: School Bus Driver Sent 1K Texts While Driving

Connecticut woman charged with endangerment
By Nick McMaster,  Newser Staff
Posted Mar 17, 2011 3:57 PM CDT
Cops: School Bus Driver Sent 1K Texts While Driving
Driving while texting is bad. Driving a school bus while texting is worse.   (Shutterstock)

A Connecticut school bus driver faces charges that she endangered the kids on her bus by texting while driving. A lot. Police say Evelyn Guzman, 47, sent and received 1,068 texts in about a month while working, the CT Post reports. Bizarrely, police got the tip to look into Guzman because of a separate offense in which her daughter—who worked as a monitor on the vehicle—allegedly beat a 9-year-old autistic girl on the bus. Video footage reviewed for the assault case showed Guzman texting while driving and led to the investigation. (More texting stories.)

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