Brooklyn, NY : Bus driver charged with DWI in Brooklyn crash on Sunday, 5th August 2018
A rookie MTA driver, extremely drunk on cheap vodka, lost control of his bus and ran into a row of cars while carrying nine passengers in Brooklyn early Sunday morning, police said.
No one was hurt when Lenny Lachman crashed his B82 bus near Flatlands Avenue and 56th Street at around 1:30 a.m., cops said — adding that he had a staggering blood-alcohol level of 0.257, more than three times the legal limit of 0.08.
A sobriety test conducted at the scene was even higher — 0.329 — cops said. The lower, official number was registered after he was brought to a station house.
Lachman, 24, was drinking Georgi vodka before the crash, and cops seized from him two bottles of it — one opened, one sealed, according to a high-ranking police source.
Riders called 911 after the Flatlands crash and told cops that they were terrified by Lachman’s erratic driving — and that he even tried to continue on his route following the smash-up.
“Passengers on the bus convinced him to stop after he hit a bunch of cars,” the source said.
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