Earlier today, a tour bus overturned on the southbound New England Thruway, killing 13 people. Yesterday afternoon, another bus avoided such a tragedy, when a bus driver of a NY-Baltimore BoltBus was arrested for allegedly driving drunk.
The driver was driving the packed bus erratically while headed south along the New Jersey Turnpike in Camden County, which caused a passenger to eventually dial 9-1-1, according to New Jersey State Police. According to Thought Catalog, one passenger on the bus reported having seen a flask. The arresting officer added that this was the second drunk-driving bus-driver he had arrested this week.
Another passenger on board was writer Tao Lin, who tweeted aboard the bus that passengers were taking the incident with a sense of humor: "someone said a 'happy hour' joke & everyone laughed, another person loudly referred to the arresting officer as 'the po po' into cell phone."
