Pennsylvania bus driver fired after child slept through her bus stop and was found at bus company’s garage

• A school bus driver was fired after a student fell asleep on the bus, missed her stop, and was found later at the bus company's garage.
• The student's parents reported her missing on Thursday afternoon when she did not get off the bus with her siblings, a school spokesperson said.
• The bus driver was new to the company, a manager told the Tribune-Review.

A Pennsylvania bus driver was fired after a student fell asleep on the bus, missed her stop, and was found at the bus company's garage later in the evening. Authorities said the driver failed to check if any more children were on the bus after completing the route.

The child is a student at Pittsburgh Beechwood PreK-5, according to the Tribune-Review. A spokesperson for the school district told Insider that the student's parents reported her missing on Thursday afternoon when she did not get off the bus with her siblings.

"A bus driver with W.L. Roenigk has been terminated after a Pittsburgh Beechwood student was found at the company's bus garage in McKees Rocks at approximately 9:30 PM, Thursday evening," Pittsburgh Public Schools spokesperson Ebony Pugh told Insider.

The W.L. Roenigk bus garage in McKees Rocks is approximately 7 miles away from the school. The bus company did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

"Stowe Township Police found the student at the bus garage. According to reports the student fell asleep on the bus," Pugh told Insider. The police department did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

Josh Orris, a manager at the bus company, told the Tribune-Review that the bus driver was new to the company.

"The driver broke the golden rule," Orris told the Tribune-Review. "Child checks are the utmost important job and failing to do it calls for immediate termination."