Ridgewood police: Bus driver transporting child with autism arrested on warrant
SEPTEMBER 23, 2014, 5:25 PM LAST UPDATED: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 2014, 5:31 PM
BY CHRIS HARRIS
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — The driver of a mini-van ferrying a child with autism to school was arrested on Monday on an outstanding warrant.
Hansel De Lo Santos, 25, of Clifton, was stopped by Ridgewood Police Monday morning after he allegedly failed to yield to a pedestrian.
De Lo Santos, the police would learn, has no license. He also had an active warrant out for his arrest, police said.
De Lo Santos was directed by police to drive the boy to the Mt. Carmel School as officers trailed him. They then arrested him in the school’s parking lot.
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If it was determined he had no license, then why was he allowed to proceed with the child in the vehicle any further than the point of the MV stop?????
Question should be is how did he get his job?
His license was suspended.
I do not understand allowing a suspended operator to continue after being caught.
I am assuming that he was permitted to drop the boy with autism at the school so as not to upset the child. I would defer to the judgement of the police on the scene. I do think they opened themselves to liability if something bad happened, all the more reason to believe they were trying to act in the best interest of the child, not just following a rule book.
It does set a precedent.
Thankfully no incident and the Village isn’t liable.
A story that should be heeded, as happened below:
In new England state years ago, a local cop pulled over a drunk driver who was a local resident. Doing what was common place at the time, he took the keys, locked up the car on the side of the road, drove the resident home, said come pick them up in the AM at the station when you are sober. The drunk found keys at home, and somehow got to the vehicle, started it, drove it, and killed someone. The police were found liable, and since then no more ‘rides home’ .
Big difference between a drunk and suspended license, but some creative lawyer would have gotten millions from the Village if that driver had an accident after he was allowed to proceed.