LOWELL, Mass. (AP) — A limousine driver hired to take a group of high school students to the prom has been arrested after the students suspected he had been drinking.
Lowell police say 45-year-old Brian Harrison of Tewksbury, Mass., was charged late Friday with operating a motor vehicle while under the influence.
Police say two female students that Harrison picked up suspected he may have been drunk. One called a parent, who called police.
The students, from Lowell Catholic High School, refused to get into the limo, and the driver left. Police say he returned later, told the students he was sorry and tried to persuade them to get into the vehicle.
Harrison was released on bail and will be arraigned Monday in Lowell District Court.
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The most amazing thing about this story is that Harrison is the third driver employed by Lynette’s Limousine Service to be arrested for drunk driving.
According to WCTV Boston, in 2004, a driver taking a group of women home from a Madonna concert was charged with driving under the influence after he got lost and began swerving across the road. Four years earlier, Lynette’s driver John Gilbert was arrested and charged with DUI while driving a group of teenagers to an N-SYNC concert. It was Gilbert’s third DUI since 1986.
Another passenger won a $42,000 settlement in 1999 after a Lynette’s driver was arrested for driving without a license and possession of cocaine. The court found Lynette’s negligent in its hiring and supervision of drivers.
With this track record, I’m surprised these guys are still in business.