Police Say Honda Civic Driver Doing 109 MPH Claims She Needed a Bathroom
Last Saturday, a Connecticut woman was arrested for reckless driving after police reportedly clocked her at nearly 110 miles per hour while driving with an infant and a young child in the back seat. According to Connecticut State Police, she told officers that, well, she needed to go to the bathroom.
Police says that shortly before 9 p.m. on October 26, a Connecticut State Trooper spotted a gray Honda Civic on Route 2 in Marlborough traveling at a high rate of speed, and used a laser gun to determine the Civic was going 109 mph in the 65 mph zone. The trooper began pursuit with emergency lights and siren activated, but the driver of the Civic reportedly didn’t slow down and pull over until the police car was directly behind it.
Once the car was stopped the trooper noticed an adult in the passenger seat and in the back an infant and a young child. When the driver, a 23-year-old woman from New London, Connecticut, was asked why she was speeding, she reportedly gave the trooper what seemed like a decent excuse: she said she needed to use the restroom.
Many of you can likely relate to being stuck in a car with the urgent need to use the toilet. However, the trooper didn’t seem to buy the story — since, as the police pointed out in a statement, the driver had passed multiple rest areas between the time she was first spotted until the time she pulled over. (At least she didn’t try to claim that it was her wedding day)
On top of it all, the vehicle's registration was suspended. The driver was ultimately arrested and charged with illegal operation of a motor vehicle under suspension, reckless driving, two counts of risk of injury to a child and reckless endangerment in the second degree.
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