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School bus driver wins $100,000 lottery prize

Chesapeake school bus driver Vivian Vaughan won $100,000 playing the Virginia Lottery Cash 5 game!
Credit: Virginia Lottery

A Chesapeake school bus driver won big playing the Virginia Lottery Cash 5 game.

Big as in $100,000. That's how much Vivian Vaughan won when she matched all five numbers. 

Vaughan is retired but still drives a school bus, according to a Virginia Lottery news release.

She purchased the ticket on June 15 at the 7-Eleven at 2200 South Military Highway.

“It hasn’t hit me yet,” Vaughan told Lottery officials as she claimed her prize. “I’m not even thinking!”

She selected her five numbers, 4-8-10-13-17, using family birthdays.

Cash 5 drawings are held daily at 1:59 p.m. and 11 p.m. The odds of winning the $100,000 top prize are 1 in 278,256.

Credit: Virginia Lottery

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