A 19-year-old driver told a police officer that she was speeding because her grandmother had suffered a heart attack, but the cop decided to check her story. Dashcam footage, along with audio from the officer in Florida, shows the exchange between him and the teenager. He was going to let her go with a warning, but after some digging, he found something that made him change his mind.
Officer uncovers teenager’s lengthy driving record
An officer catches a gray truck speeding and leads it to a side road, as captured on video released on July 15 on Facebook by the Marco Island Police Department in Florida.
When he reaches the passenger side of the vehicle, the teenage driver begins telling him the excuse that her grandmother had a heart attack 30 minutes ago. Since this would be a legitimate reason for her speeding, he asks whether EMS had arrived on scene. She says they are on their way, but that her grandma wanted to driven by her to see one of her doctors elsewhere.
When the officer asks more about the heart attack, the driver changes her story slightly. It wasn’t actually a heart attack, she says, but her grandmother has heart issues and wears a monitor that indicated something was wrong.
Still, the officer says he caught her going 61 miles per hour when the speed limit was 35, for which she apologizes.
Back in the vehicle, the officer speaks on camera that he has some doubts because “the story is changing a bit.” He digs deeper and later approaches the truck again to share some information he learned that led to his judgment.
“I was seriously considering giving you a warning until I looked into your driving history,” the cop explains. “You’ve got nine stops for speeding.”
“You’re only, what, 19? You’re going to be 20 in December? You haven’t even been driving that long,” he continued. “You’re gonna end up getting your license taken away from the state. I see that it was already suspended once for 30 days.”
He would normally recommend that a driver with a speeding ticket take some improvement courses to prevent their license from losing points, but that could only be done three times in total. Given that she had already racked up nine citations, she was dangerously close from getting her license revoked permanently.
The officer then gave her his final word: “I understand you’re going to pick up your grandmother … if it’s not an emergency enough for her to go by EMS to a hospital, it’s not an emergency enough for you do 61 on a 35.”
