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Imagine waiting for your child to get home from school and receiving this text message from him: "Mommy I think our bus driver is drunk she's not driving right."

Police in Westampton Township, Burlington County, say they were called after parents received text messages from their children about their driver swerving and falling asleep at the wheel, the Associated Press reported.

The bus was taking 25 students home from Westampton Middle School on Tuesday afternoon. One of them, 12-year-old Dominic Rodrigues, sent the above message to his mother, and other kids phoned and texted their parents as well, according to NBC Philadelphia

"People were yelling, 'I don't want to die today,'" Dominic told the Philadelphia television station.

The parents called the school, and officials there notified the police. Officers searched the area and found the bus at the township's Holly Hills Elementary School, where the driver was about to pick up more children, according to the reports.

The driver, Carole, Crockett, 46, was removed from the bus and arrested at the school. Westampton police Sgt. Stephen Ent told NBC Philadelphia that Crockett submitted to a breath test that showed her blood alcohol was .25, more than five times the legal limit for operating a commercial vehicle.

Crockett was released on $85,000 bail and is scheduled to appear in court on Nov. 17. NBC Philadelphia said she was fired from her job with Wills Bus Service, which provides transportation for the students.

—ANNE-MARIE COTTONE, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM