GREENVILLE, SC : Driver charged with DUI after crashing into school bus carrying 24 students on Wednesday, November, 15th 2017
Greenville, South Carolina
Highway Patrol troopers say a driver was intoxicated when he hit a Greenville County School bus carrying 24 students on I-385 Thursday afternoon.
The crash was reported about 12:35 p.m. on northbound I-385, district representative Beth Brotherton said.
The driver told the district that a car swerved into the bus on the entrance ramp from Woodruff Road, Brotherton said.
No students were injured, Brotherton said. They were headed from the Golden Strip Career Center to J.L. Mann High School, she said.
The students were transferred to another bus and taken to school, Brotherton said. She said parents of students involved would be notified through individual phone calls.
From Sky 4, officials were seen administering what appeared to be a sobriety test to a man. That man was later handcuffed and placed in a highway patrol car.
Trooper Joe Hovis said Christopher Howard Cooke, 51, of Charlotte, was charged with DUI. He is currently being held at the Greenville County Detention Center, Hovis said.
The South Carolina Highway Patrol is investigating.
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Driver charged with DUI after crashing into school bus carrying 24 students, troopers say