The employee, Torrence Prayvord Stephenson, 24, of 1215 Old Wilkesboro Road, works at the same group home where two employees were charged in January for allowing five teens to consume alcohol and engage in sexual activity.

Stephenson, an employee of Developmental Independent Care Services, was charged Thursday with driving while impaired, four counts of contributing to the delinquency of minors, wreckless driving and driving with no license after he wrecked a 1998 Ford Windstar van owned by the group home. The home is for teens in Department of Social Services custody.

Stephenson and four youths from the West Horah Street home — three 16-year-olds and a 15-year-old — were going to the home of one of the boys’ aunts when they crashed on Potneck Road around 7:15 p.m., North Carolina Highway Patrol Trooper T.D. Cato said.

“I started to smell alcohol right away,” Cato said. Stephenson took a breathalyzer test at the Salisbury Police Department and “probable cause was found to charge him with driving under the influence,” Cato said.

“The kids had also been drinking, all four of them,” Cato said.

Bruce Goodson, administrator for Independent Care, could not be reached for comment.

In January, two of the group home’s employees were charged with 13 counts of contributing to the delinquency of a minor, five counts of providing alcohol and eight counts of allowing intercourse.

Sheryl Len Bost, 41, Weant Street Apartment 47, East Spencer, and Andre Dwain Dickerson, 22, 1100W. Fisher St., Apt. 15, were both fired after the home investigated the incident.

Bost, in charge of a female home on Crosby Street, and Dickerson, in charge of the male home on Horah Street, allowed five teens, ages 13-15 to consume alcohol and engage in sexual activity.

None of the teens involved in the Wednesday night accident was injured.

“They had some cuts but they weren’t seriously injured and refused an ambulance,” Cato said.

The accident report indicates Stephenson lost control of the van on a curve. It went off the road and overturned twice before coming to rest on its side.

Cato said Stephenson had an out-of-state license and had not applied for a North Carolina license. “You have 60 days to change your address,” Cato said, warranting the no license charge.

Stephenson was given a $500 bond for the driving while impaired charge and an additional $2,000 for the contributing charges.