Dear Editor,
I am very concerned about the children riding in school buses in the city schools. Friday, Dec. 14 at 3:30 p.m., I was traveling on North Park Avenue when a school bus came up behind me and came up almost to my bumper all the way to Lafayette Street, then to Mississippi 13 North until I turned off close to Burkett’s Corner, all the time all but touching my bumper.
I slowed down to a crawl in case someone pulled out of a side street in my path I could stop safely without causing an accident and the bus would not be going fast enough to cause the children to get thrown out of their seats.
There are times I see the buses driving, I feel, above the speed limits. If the bus driver is getting a thrill by tailgating is one thing, yet putting the children’s lives in danger is indefensible.
Tony W. McDermit
Columbia
