Anthony Stuckey crashed the school bus he was driving into a New Jersey home yesterday and was later pulled over for allegedly being intoxicated behind the wheel.
Police said Stuckey was driving the bus on Passaic Avenue in West Caldwell just after 8:30 a.m. Friday when it veered off the road and collided with a home north of Terrace Place.
Stuckey had just dropped off the students at West Caldwell Tech High School and was the only one on the bus at the time. Another driver swerved off the road and ended up in an accident of his own. His car sustained damage to the front end.
Miraculously no one was hurt and Stuckey was arrested at the scene. He was later charged with a series of charges including driving while intoxicated and endangering the welfare of a minor, he recounted. ABC News.
“I was making a right turn at the light when I saw the bus fly straight into the house,” eyewitness Karen Zieleniewski said. “It was so strong. He just walked into the house and there was a big bang and that was it.”
The home’s owner, Professor Siva Thangam, a mechanical engineer at Stevens Institute of Technology, had left around 5 am and said the home was unoccupied at the time of the accident.
Two bedrooms were affected by the impact. Thangam said there was significant structural and foundation damage.
“It is a very busy street, it is a bit dangerous. They recently put up guardrails here to protect some of these houses because there was another accident a couple of years ago,” said resident Nicole Perez.
In a similar case, in December seven children were injured when a school bus crashed into a house in New Hempstead, a suburb of New York City.
In September, a thief fleeing a Rite Aid pharmacy ended up crashing a car into a KFC chicken restaurant in an attempted kidnapping in Queens (NYC).
Also that month, an elderly woman crashed her car into a chicken restaurant in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. And a 42-year-old drunk driver was arrested after crashing her vehicle into an electric pole and then a residence in Saugerties, Ulster County, New York.
In August, a car entered the kitchen of a home in a spectacular road accident in Farmingdale (Long Island, NY). The driver, a 20-year-old from Queens (NYC), was captured after fleeing the scene.