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The Honorable Thomas R. Caltagirone Chairman, House Judiciary Committee PA House of Representatives 106 Irvis Office Building PO Box 202127 Harrisburg, PA 17120-2127 Dear Sir: I am writing to ask you to please bring House Bill 513, increasing the mandatory minimum sentence for an accident resulting in death from one year to five years’ imprisonment, up for a vote in your committee. I am the individual who wrote to State Representative David Reed asking for laws to be changed regarding hit-and-run crimes. My younger brother, Sean Pearce, was killed July 15, 2005 by a hit-and-run driver. A few weeks after Sean was killed I decided that I had to do something so that he did not die without cause. The only way I see fit to honor his memory was to change laws so another family does not have to deal with the legalities that we know we will some day face. One year of imprisonment for someone who so callously took a life and did not stop is not enough. Five years is not enough. No time is enough. I understand that accidents happen but to just leave a human being laying on the road without checking to see if they need medical attention is someone who is bereft of human decency. What if my brother would have survived if he was given immediate medical attention? I am a moderator for the website www.deadlyroads.com The gentleman who created the website did a lot of research and learned that approximately 4 people are killed every day in the United States due to a hit-and-run driver …

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