Drunk MTA Bus Driver Plows Into Cars In Brooklyn: Cops And Report

CANARSIE, BROOKLYN — AN MTA driver who smashed a bus with nine passengers inside it into a row of cars Sunday morning was drunk on vodka, according to police and reports.

Lenny Lachman, 24, was charged with driving while intoxicated and reckless driving after he crashed his B82 bus near 56th Street and Flatlands Avenue at about 1:30 a.m, police said.

Lachman’s blood-alcohol level was three times the legal limit and he had two bottles of Georgi vodka, one already open, with him in the bus, a police source told the New York Post.

Riders who called 911 told emergency responders that Lachman had tried to continue driving after the crash, but they convinced him to stop, the Post reported.

Lachman was arraigned on driving while intoxicated charges in Brooklyn Criminal Court Sunday night and released from court, where he is slated to return on Sept. 26, court records show.

The MTA suspended Lachman without pay, according to the New York Post.

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