Traffic police are used to hearing all kinds of excuses when they stop a motorist. In the case of the speedingthe most common are those of the type “it wasn’t me”, “it can’t be, the radar is wrong”, but I am sure that “I needed to go to the bathroom” is not the most common.
And yet that’s what a Connecticut state trooper has experienced. Sitting in his patrol car, watching the traffic, he saw a Honda Civic gray at 171 km/h on a road limited to 105 km/h. He stops him and the driver, Brianna Guerin, 21, tells him: “I was speeding because I needed to go to the bathroom.”.
From bad to worse
It may have happened to all of us at least once when we had to pray to get to the next gas station, or to the nearest bush, with our dignity intact and the car seat clean. But from there we go at more than 160 km/h to reach the next rest area, there is a distance. This is not the case with Brianna. Even so, the police made the usual checks in these cases. And things got worse.
First, there was the matter of the Civic’s license plate. These have to be renewed every year, it is like our road tax. And the one on his Civic had expired, so they weren’t legal plates and he couldn’t drive the car. We started well.
Then there was the situation of his passengers. He was accompanied by an adult woman, but also two small children, one of them still a baby. A priori, he had reasons to go fast, but from there to endanger the children at that speed? Reckless is not enough.
Obviously, the bathroom excuse was just that, a crappy excuse. Officers present learned that she had passed several rest areas before they caught up with her. He had already had several opportunities to stop and solve his supposed emergency.
We already know that the highway toilets They usually have more sewers than bathrooms, but if it really is an emergency, you do it with guts. In any case, no service area seemed to have met their criteria.
And what had to happen, happened. The lame excuse did nothing more than convince the agents that they couldn’t just give her a warning and let her go. Guerin was charged with several counts: reckless driving, driving with a suspended license plate and two counts of risk of injury to a child.
After paying a $1,000 bond, his case was also reported to the Connecticut Department of Children and Families, that is, child protective services. As they remember from Motor Biscuit, which has echoed the news, “let’s hope that now the system gets to the bottom of the matter and Guerin has learned his lesson.”
Foto | Taras Makarenko
Source: www.motorpasion.com
