Man in jail for driving school bus full of children while intoxicated
WASHINGTON, Ind. (WISH) — A 55-year-old school bus driver was in jail Monday after police found he had a blood-alcohol content nearly three times beyond Indiana’s threshold for driving drunk.
The Daviess County Sheriff’s Office received a call just after 9 a.m. Monday that a school bus carrying 38 children and four adults was stuck in mud at the intersection of U.S. 50 and County Road 300W. That’s about a mile west of the Indiana city of Washington.
The bus, a 2007 yellow Freightliner owned by the Diocese of Evansville Catholic Church, was being used for a Washington Catholic Schools field trip.
The driver, Steven W. Truelove, was taken to Daviess Community Hospital for a drug and alcohol screen, and was found to have a blood-alcohol content of 0.221. The threshold in Indiana for driving drunk is a blood-alcohol content of 0.08. He was was charged with OWI-endangering.
All passengers were safely removed from the bus without any injuries.
As of Monday afternoon, Truelove was in the Daviess County Security Center with no bond, the sheriff’s office said in a social media post.
Washington, a city of 12,500 residents, is about a three-hour drive southwest of downtown Indianapolis.
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