A Betsy Layne man is facing more than 40 felony charges after, police said, he crashed his vehicle into a loaded school bus on Ky. Route 1426 while driving intoxicated.
According to the Floyd County Chronicle, the indictment handed down last week by a Floyd County grand jury charges Anthony Andy Kiser, 37, with 43 counts of first-degree wanton endangerment (a class D felony), as well as DUI, a felony charge of possession of a controlled substance (oxycodone) and traffic charges, including reckless driving in connection with the incident.
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In an arrest citation filed after the incident, Kentucky State Police Trooper Shane Hurtt wrote that when he encountered Kiser, he noticed Kiser had, “blood shot glassy eyes, pin point pupils, and slurred speech.” Kiser, Hurtt wrote, was unable to successfully perform field sobriety tests and Kiser told the trooper, “that he had taken OxyContin and that he did not have a (prescription) for it.”
In a search of Kiser’s vehicle, Hurtt wrote, police found 24 green pills identified as oxycodone, as well as a single white pill identified as Xanax.
Officials said at the time that one student who suffered minor injuries in the crash was transported to a local hospital as a precautionary measure.
According to Floyd Commonwealth’s Attorney Brent Turner, while each count of wanton endangerment, Turner said, carries a maximum prison sentence of five years, the most to which Kiser could be sentenced if found guilty would be 20 years, under the state’s sentencing laws.
However, Turner said, this case was apparently different in the eyes of the grand jury which issued the indictment.
“Normally (the number of charges) would be pared down a little bit, but it’s an unusual case, also,” he said. “In this case, I think, because of the nature of this case and the situation, maybe the grand jury felt it appropriate to charge for each child on (the bus).”
Turner said his office often deals with cases of someone driving while intoxicated and hitting other vehicles.
“The allegations here are obviously more serious because of the number of people in danger and because it’s a school bus,” he said.
