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Colorado bus driver Brian Fitzgerald charged with child abuse as video shows him slamming brakes on purpose

Author

Sophia Hammond

Updated on February 06, 2026

On Walk 1, 2023, Colorado transport driver Brian Fitzgerald supposedly pummeled the brakes of the transport perilously to show the youthful inhabitants a thing or two. Fitzgerald asserted that he applied the brakes with an end goal to “teach” the children who were getting up from their seats and going around. Notwithstanding, the episode prompted Fitzgerald being accused of a few counts of kid misuse. He was likewise terminated from his work by the Douglas Province School Area.

In the recording of the episode, the kids can be heard getting censured by Brian Fitzgerald for getting up from their seats. The children yelled in fear as he banged on the brakes prior to letting them know that was precisely why they ought to heed his guidance. As indicated by FOX, somewhere around one little kid supported wounds that made her drain after the episode.

As announced by KRDO, after Brian Fitzgerald dropped off one of the young ladies who was supposedly harmed in the episode, the understudy whined to her folks and started crying. The mother asserted that Fitzgerald was going to close the transport entryway and drive away, however he rethought and continued to make the way for converse with the parent.

At the point when the parent inquired as to why her youngster was crying, Fitzgerald confessed to raising a ruckus around town.

“I said they should be in their seat. I was halting and I hit the brakes hard on the grounds that they weren’t. They were not tuning in. In this way, Please accept my apologies assuming that she got injured.”
Another mother, Lauren Thomason, asserted that various kids were harmed. She added that her own child hit his head, which was especially unsettling to her as he was at that point experiencing a blackout.
“My child came tearing the through the entryway that evening. He ran as far as possible home. He was exhausted and humiliated and totally wailing and shaking. He was frightened.”
She proceeded:

“He had hammered his head into the seat back before him. Another amigo had pummeled his head into the window. So his neck and his head were harming.”