Schoolboy, 10, 軍隊d to walk two miles home from school because he was A PENNY short of 95p fare

Published: 12:25 BST, 10 October 2012 | Updated: 14:41 BST, 10 October 2012

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A ten-year-old boy who was a penny short of his bus fare had to walk two miles to get home after the driver 辞退するd to let him board.

Colby Regis discovered he had lost 1p of his bus fare as he tried to get the bus for the two-mile 旅行 home to Birkby in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire.

But the bus driver would not let him on without the 訂正する fare - which First Bus has 確認するd goes against company 政策.

Colby Regis, 10, from Birkby, who was denied his bus home and had to walk because he was just 1p short of his fare

Colby's mother Maria said the previous week the driver had no change and her son had to 支払う／賃金￡1 instead of 95p

Colby’s mother, Maria Regis, said the previous week the bus driver had no change and Colby had to 支払う／賃金￡1 instead of the usual 95p fare.

She complained to First buses after a fri end, who is a bus driver, told her that it was 演習d into them never to leave a child behind.

Yet she said she felt ‘fobbed off’ and was told she wouldn’t find out the results of an 内部の調査.

Mrs Regis said: 'I just want some 安心 that this won’t happen again for the sake of 1p. With a young girl 行方不明の in むちの跡s I dread to think of what could have happened.'

Colby …に出席するs St Thomas 最初の／主要な School in nearby Bradley and gets the 328 bus.

Last Wednesday he stayed behind for a basketball after-school club and then went for the bus on a 居住の road called Keldregate at around 4.30pm.

Maria 追加するd: 'He told the driver but he wouldn’t even let him on the bus. There were two other children but they both had bus passes and didn’t have any money.

'Because he’s not 許すd a phone at school he couldn’t 接触する me so he started walking home. Luckily as he was walking through Deighton a family friend spotted him and brought him home.

'I’ve only just begun letting him get the bus- he’s going to high school next year and he needs some experience of getting the bus to school. But he was やめる苦しめるd and I’m just disgusted it happened. I can’t believe it was over 1p.'

Colby Regis, 10, from Birkby, who was denied his bus home and had to walk because he was just 1p short of his fare (file picture)

First Bus said it is will 開始する，打ち上げる an 調査 and said its 政策 is that if children genuinely do not have the 訂正する fare they shoul d still be let on (とじ込み／提出する picture)

A First 広報担当者 said: 'We are sorry to hear that the parent of one of our young 顧客s has felt the need to complain. As this 事柄 has only just been 報告（する）／憶測d to us we have not had time to begin an 調査.

'We will now look into this 主張. This will 含む speaking to the driver in question to get his 見解／翻訳／版 of events. First has a stringent 政策 on the 問題／発行する of young and 攻撃を受けやすい people.

'When a young person genuinely does not have the 訂正する fare then our drivers are asked to make a 公式文書，認める of their 詳細（に述べる）s and then to let them on the bus for their 旅行 home'.