Penalty should have been more for passing bus

Shirley Chichester / Culpeper Star Exponent
Published: February 16, 2008

Chris Feagan didn't get even as much of a sentence as a person would get for running a red light: one year in jail with 10 months suspended, leaving him two months to serve on taxpayers money and a restricted license to drive to and from work after 60 days.

Feagan's family must feel terrible that the sentence was not stricter.

Every one of us knows that it isn't right to pass a school bus after it stops with lights on to take on children or pick them up.

Where have the rules gone and what happened to enforcing the law to its fullest- For such a crime, what part of the $1,000 that he was fined is the family going to get for their child-

I hope that by printing this in your paper it may make the law tougher and possibly save a child's life.