A former bus driver for who drove students for the South Royalton School appeared in court to face charges of DUI while operating a school bus and child cruelty. Another driver for the same school district was charged with DUI earlier this school year.
Since September two bus drivers have been charged with DUI while on the clock. The most recent is 57-year-old Carl Lupton.
“A staff member came in and said ‘I think i smell alcohol on the driver’s breath,'” Orange-Windsor Supervisory Union Superintendent David Bickford said.