DANGEROUS BUS DRIVERS * USA - Drug, alcohol tests to increase for
Bus driver's arrest history prompts NCTD call to revamp background checks
North County,San Diego,CAL,USA -The North County Times, by CHRIS NICHOLS -July 14, 2010: -- Public bus drivers across North County will be subject to more random drug and alcohol tests in response to last month's arrest of a driver suspected of ferrying passengers while extremely drunk, a transit spokesman said this week... David Joseph Costello, 41, recently was hired to drive North County Transit District buses by private contractor First Transit. He had a blood alcohol level of 0.25 percent at the time of his arrest on June 1, after being stopped in Encinitas after passengers called police... Prosecutors charged him Tuesday with five misdemeanors, three tied to the June arrest and two for public intoxication arrests in early April, one month after he started driving NCTD buses... Several bus riders stopped at the Vista Transit Center on Tuesday said they're glad more frequent drug and alcohol screenings will be conducted for drivers... He said he didn't think it was necessary, either... Some of those riders said that they were still concerned that the transit agency isn't changing its practices in regard to background checks...
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