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School bus driver charged with DUI while driving students in Gloucester County: police

By FOX 29 staff
Published  February 9, 2024 9:10pm EST
Gloucester County
FOX 29 Philadelphia

School bus driver for Gloucester County school district arrested for DUI

A school bus driver for the Clayton, N.J. school district was arrested for DUI after officials said she failed a field sobriety test. She had been driving a school bus full of children.

CLAYTON, N.J. - A New Jersey school bus driver has been charged with driving under the influence of alcohol while driving a bus full of children.

Police in Clayton, a borough in Gloucester County, pulled over 48-year-old Suzanne Stoms, of Williamstown, around 9 a.m. Friday, with 23 elementary school students on the bus.

Police said she failed the field sobriety test and was arrested.

A substitute bus picked up the children and took them safely to Herma Simmons Elementary School.

The Clayton Public School District released a statement saying, in part:

"It goes without saying that this is behavior that will not be tolerated and we will be terminating the employee effective immediately."