School bus driver fired after child found on bus in parking lot

A bus company says it has fired a driver who failed to drop off a four-year-old child at his Ottawa school Friday and instead drove him to the company's parking lot, some 40 kilometres away in Clarence-Rockland, Ont.

Yasmine Benali (left) said her friend Rima Zayed (right) was upset and panicked when her son didn't show up for the first day of school on Friday, Sept. 4. The child was supposed to arrive on the school bus but ended up being driven all the way to Clarence-Rockland, Ont., after the driver failed to carry out a mandatory check.(Sarah Kester/CBC)