School bus with 6 autistic students went missing for hours in Brooklyn, report finds – CBS News

School bus with 6 autistic students went missing for hours in Brooklyn, report finds  CBS News

A city investigation found six nonverbal autistic students arrived at a Brooklyn school more than four hours late after a substitute driver got lost and school officials were unable to locate the bus. Six nonverbal autistic students were missing for hours before arriving at a Brooklyn school more than four hours late after a substitute bus driver got lost, according to a city investigation. The incident was reported on Dec. 16 of last year involving students enrolled at P.S. 289 in Crown Heights. Students who ride the bus are normally expected to arrive between 8:20 a.m. and 9 a.m., but the six students did not reach the school until 1:25 p.m.

School officials had no way of knowing where the bus was for much of the morning, according to a report by the Special Commissioner of Investigation for the New York City School District, The investigation found that the bus company, Consolidated Transit, was unresponsive as school officials sought information about the missing students. The Department of Education and NYPD were contacted. At 11:45 a.m., a dispatcher told the school the driver was lost and would arrive within about 15 minutes. The bus did not arrive until 1:25 p.m. The dispatcher also told the school the bus' live GPS tracker was not working. However, Special Commissioner Anastasia Coleman said the