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Some people shouldn’t drive. One Iowa man certainly fits that bill after racking up two DUIs in nine days, one of which involved him crashing his pickup truck into a Quad Cities elementary school. The wild crash left the repeat offender’s truck parked in a kindergarten classroom.

An Illinois driver got his second DUI in a little over a week by crashing a truck into an elementary school

28-year-old Marco Flores of Rock Island, Illinois, was driving his pickup truck when he lost control of his vehicle. The vehicle speared into Hamilton Elementary School, coming to a halt in one of the school’s kindergarten classrooms. But here’s the kicker: Flores was drunk at the time.

Local police arrested Flores at the elementary school and carted him off to the Rock Island County Jail. If that weren’t enough, this isn’t the first time Flores has overindulged and settled in behind the wheel. In fact, this isn’t even Flores’s first DUI arrest this month.

Police arrested Flores on October 3 for, you guessed it, a DUI, per KWQC. Now, in a typical DUI case, the offending driver receives a license suspension pending a judge’s decision to allow them to continue driving with an occupational license. In Flores’s case, authorities busted him for the second drunk driving charge while he was on a suspended sentence for the first. 

And it’s not like the Illinois man recently picked up the habit of driving under the influence. According to his record, this latest arrest is Flores’s fourth DUI since 2017. Four drunk driving charges in eight years. Again, some people shouldn’t drive.

The Illinois State Police says that a second DUI conviction results in a five-year loss of driving privileges. That’s within 20 years, too. A third conviction is a 10-year revocation of driving privileges and bumps things up to a Class 2 felony.

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