Wallingford Council Chairman Cited for Driving Past Stopped School Bus: Report

Wallingford Town Council Chairman Vincent Cervoni was issued a citation Friday for allegedly driving past a stopped bus at Sheehan High School in an incident that has caused a commotion on Facebook, according to the Meriden Record-Journal.

Cervoni, a Republican seeking re-election, told the Record-Journal that he pulled into Sheehan’s driveway around 2 p.m. on Oct. 16 and saw buses lined up but didn’t see students walking along the sidewalk and parked his car and went inside to coach the school’s mock trial team.

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Cervoni later discovered that the bus driver posted the incident to a Facebook community forum where it exploded and a separate thread was created asking if elected officials receive special treatment, according to the Record-Journal.

The Record-Journal reports Cervoni, who went to the police department after learning of the threads, posted a lengthy response on the forum and said the incident should have been reported to the police before social media.

Read the full report at the Meriden Record-Journal here.