The Region : Driver in Accident on Drugs, RTD Says

Tests showed that RTD driver Vivian Harris had cocaine in her bloodstream when her bus slammed into the back of another RTD bus on 5th Street near Main Street, a spokesman for the Southern California Rapid Transit District said. Harris, 37, was one of 21 people treated for minor injuries. RTD spokesman Jim Smart said Harris, a bus driver for seven years, was suspended immediately after Monday’s accident. He said some passengers said she had been driving erratically before the crash. Smart said that under terms of a new policy on drug use, the RTD will ask for her dismissal at a closed personnel hearing to be held within the next five days.