Chicago DUI lawyer comments on a school bus driver charged with a DUI...on the job

This Chicago DUI lawyer has posted here and here about bus drivers. Now comes news of a school bus driver charged with a DUI.

March 10, Rolling Meadows, IL

A northwest suburban school bus driver was arrested Tuesday and charged with DUI after allegedly failing field sobriety tests and registering nearly three times the legal limit on a breath test.

About 3:45 p.m. Tuesday, Mount Prospect police Sgt. Michael Eterno got a call from Vincente Ramirez, transportation coordinator for Mount Prospect School District 57, according to a release from police.

Ramirez told the sergeant one of the district's bus drivers, 54-year-old Betty A. Burden of Mount Prospect, was operating bus No. 11, transporting about 50 students from Lions Park Elementary School in Mount Prospect to various bus stops in the village, the release said.

A co-worker had reported smelling an alcoholic beverage on Burden’s breath about 2:30 p.m. and Ramirez wants police to investigate, the release said.

She did submit to Breath Alcohol Testing. The results were more than two times over the legal limit.

I will admit, I'm curious as to why her colleagues would let her leave with a bus load of children if they thought she was under the influence.