Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Monday morning at 8:59 am EST I received a call from my sister. She tells me that my mother is having severe crushing chest pain, and she is being rushed to the hospital. I'm about a 45 minute drive from where she was taken. I ran out of work, hopped in my car, and I floored it. The whole time I'm bawling my eyes out because I literally have no idea if I'm racing the clock to see my mother alive for the last time. Probably the scariest moment of my life (pretty close to being in my house when an invader came in to rob it with me at gunpoint). About 20 minutes into driving there, I get pulled over. I was going 75 in a 40. The cop notices that I'm crying like a bitch. I told him I have to get to my mom in the hospital because she may have had a heart attack. He takes my license and walks to his car. About 5 minutes later he comes back with a ticket. It's for $250 dollars. He tells me that the speed I was going results in an automatic suspended license. BUT, if I can bring proof that my mother was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance he will knock it down. He shooed me on my way, and told me to slow it down. I got to the hospital, and she's fine. She's sitting up with the rest of my family around her laughing. They all live within 5 minutes of the hospital. None of them thought to call me. They could've saved me $250. That's not what I'm getting at here though.
TL;DR: Mom went to hospital, I got a big ticket for rushing there.
My question is:
Has anybody else had a justified reason to speed, and once you went to the magistrate with your ticket, they threw out the case?
TL;DR: Mom went to hospital, I got a big ticket for rushing there.
My question is:
Has anybody else had a justified reason to speed, and once you went to the magistrate with your ticket, they threw out the case?