A Long Island school bus driver caught drinking while bringing students home last week will not face charges — because police believe her story that she grabbed a hard seltzer without realizing it was alcoholic.
The 60-year-old driver, Amal Hanna, told News 12 Long Island that she is teetotal because she’s undergoing chemotherapy for cancer — which also leaves her unable to taste if drinks are alcoholic.
She said she grabbed a White Claw from the fridge she shares with a roommate in Hauppauge, thinking she was drinking a regular fruit-flavored seltzer while driving kids home from Smithtown High School West on Wednesday.
“It was just a mistake, it was a mistake,” the newly fired driver said through tears, fearing she could end up homeless from going through chemo without a job.
“For people like me that don’t drink — how are they going to know this is alcohol?” she asked, pointing out how the can only warned it was in small print.
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