NewsChannel5.com | Nashville News, Weather & SportsSchool Says Employees Not At Fault In Deadly DUI Crash

GALLATIN, Tenn. – The Sumner County School district said its employees did not do anything wrong when they allowed a nine-year-old girl's stepfather to pick her up from school - one hour before she died in a drunk driving crash.

Dusty McDonald admitted to being drunk when he picked up Alexis Thompson from Benny Bills Elementary in Gallatin. On the way home, he crashed his truck, and ran from the scene. Alexis died.

Her mother, Christina McDonald, sued, claiming school representatives knew Dusty McDonald was not on the approved pickup list, and knew he had been drinking.

But the school system said the district's practice has always been to release a student to a parent, unless otherwise notified.