TIFTON — Newly-released details show that a Tift County school bus driver was arrested Tuesday on a DUI charge after failing to hold the bus in the lane several times while children were on board following a traffic crash earlier in the day.

Around 1:16 p.m., a Georgia State Patrol trooper stopped the bus in Tift County after receiving reports of the bus driver driving recklessly, a statement released by the Georgia State Patrol said. An earlier statement from Tift County Schools said the bus had been used for a field trip to Albany that day. The students were from Annie Belle Clark Elementary School.

The trooper saw the bus driver failing to maintain lane several times on Whiddon Mill Road and Carpenter Road, the GSP statement said. The trooper stopped the bus, talked with the driver and performed sobriety tests; the driver was then arrested, the state patrol said. The school system said the driver was cited for DUI and failure to maintain lane.

The bus had been involved in a traffic crash while on the field trip in Dougherty County, according to the statement.

Parents were notified and the driver was placed on administrative leave as an investigation took place, Tift County Schools said.