LEXINGTON - 84-year-old Jean Robinson got her license when she was a teen. She's never had a ticket, until now. "I thought this is really official," she said.
She'd never been to Bluff City, Tennessee where she got her first citation for speeding. "When I used to drive on 81 I'd always set the speed at 70 miles an hour because if you don't, oh the tractor trailers will pass you," she explained. "One did knock me clear out of the road one time."
Jean called me thinking her ticket by mail was a scam. It turns out the ticket is real, issued in area where police had just started a photo safety program to catch alleged speeders on camera. "When I first looked at it I knew I hadn't been there."
If a picture is worth a thousand words, this one tells quite the story. It's Jean's tag number all right, but her on a motorcycle? "I thought maybe I ought to send them the money and not worry about it, and that's the last thing you should do."
Bluff City's Police Chief tells me his officer should have caught that the registration information didn't match with the motorcycle and never sent Jean a ticket. DMV can't explain why they even have the same plate. "It's been years we've had the same banged up license plate," said Jean. "We've just been renewing it every year."
The chief dismissed the ticket after our call. Relieved her record is still clean, Jean now finds reason to laugh. "It's really fun to think they really thought an 84-year-old woman would break the speed limit at 12:03 a.m. In Bluff City, TN."
She just hopes the person who did, changes his plate so she's not mistaken for the night rider again.
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