When a pregnant Angela Couglin looked at her husband John and said 'You need to get me to the hospital,' he loaded up the car and took off. Fast. In a hurried attempt to ensure his soon-to-be-born son wasn't born in the car, he sped.
In fact, he sped (at 102 mph) right by a New Hampshire state trooper. When the trooper realized what was happening, he escorted the couple to the hospital, helped Angela out of the car, and then he did something that has many scratching their heads: he gave them a ticket.
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amazingly, everyone who is aghast at the fact that the couple received a ticket utterly ignores the fact that he was going 102 miles an hour. no father in his right mind would drive his family along at 102 mph, and just because his wife was having a baby is no reason to endanger her, the child, himself, and (the point never mentioned) EVERYONE ELSE ON THE ROAD.
Here's how it works... you drive as you are supposed to on the road that I also drive on with my family. Your emergency and your family are never important enough to over ride the expectation of others on the road that they can reasonably expect no one to be driving 102 mph in the lane behind them.
Saying that the officer was mean, or that the father had 'control' is equivocation. Where does it stop? Should he have been permitted to go thru red lights? Why not, then?
He drove 102 miles per hour AND called 911 at the same time? The guy is lucky he only got a speeding ticket and that they weren't all killed. I suppose, in hindsight, his fast driving allowed them to make it to the hospital on time. The baby was born 6 minutes after they arrived. I just think they should've stayed home and called 911 if she was that close to delivering.
I love it when people think they can flaunt the law "just because". You are *not* trained emergency personnel. You are *not* driving an emergency vehicle. You are *not* trained in high-speed driving. Get used to these facts, and you won't be surprised when you get cited for DWHUA like this guy did.
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