Three students in Pensacola, Florida are facing disciplinary action after police said they took a school bus for a three-hour joyride.
The three students — two 11-year-olds and a 14-year-old — found the bus with the door open and key in the ignition in a prep school parking lot at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, the Pensacola News Journal reports. The students do not attend the prep school.
Police said the three students, who attend school in Escambia County School District, drove the bus off campus and around the town for three hours, even driving along the interstate and near the Pensacola Naval Air Station. A citizen reported the bus after it was seen hitting a few curbs and swerving into oncoming traffic, police said. Officers stopped the bus around 10:15 p.m. and arrested the students.
Officers said no one was injured and the bus sustained minimal damage. "The one thing on the bus was a broken tail light," Escambia County School District Deputy Superintendent Norm Ross told the News Journal. "With the amount of time they clocked and the mileage they traveled, we're very blessed that something more serious didn't happen."
Ross said the school district will take disciplinary action against the students.
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