Drunken bus driver gets 30 days in jail

Columbus Dispatch

COLUMBUS

A bus driver who was drunk while taking Hilliard schoolchildren to Cedar Point will serve 30 days in jail.

Ronald L. Williams, 46, was convicted of child endangering, drunken driving and failure to possess a commercial driver’s license. He pleaded no contest in Bellevue Municipal Court.

Judge Kenneth Fox sentenced Williams to six months in jail on the child-endangering charge and suspended five months of the sentence. Williams was sentenced to three days in jail for the DUI charge. He was fined $550, and his driver’s license was suspended for six months. He got a $150 fine and a 30-day sentence for failing to possess a commercial driver’s license.

The jail time for the DUI and license conviction will be served concurrently with the 30-day sentence for child endangering. Williams was sentenced on June 7.

Williams, a driver for Urban Express Transportation of Columbus, swerved off Rt. 4 in Huron County while carrying 12 Heritage Middle School students and two adult chaperones. Some of the passengers received slight injuries.