NEW BRITAIN, CT. (WFSB) - There was frustration in New Britain after a mix up with school bus routes in the first week of school.

A boy with autism was driven an hour in the wrong direction on his way home, leaving his mother in a panic.

“If it wasn’t for my baby‘s phone, I wouldn’t have known where he was because they did not know where my baby was,” said Somers McCray.

Her son Courtney got out of school at 2:45 p.m. last Friday. When he wasn’t home after more than an hour, she started to worry.

“He’s saying he’s in the car and saying he’s on his way but he’s not here. Like what is taking her so long where is her location,” she continued.

McCray called the bus company First Student.

They told her that the GPS tracking on the bus wasn’t working, so she took matters into her own hands

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