Woman cited for speeding three times in an hour, is arrested
A Bay Area woman who was pulled over for speeding three times in one hour on the same highway has been released from the Yuba County jail, authorities said Tuesday.
Lynne Cahill-Gomez, 53, was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of reckless driving. It took three speeding tickets within minutes of each other to finally put the allegedly lead-footed woman behind bars.
Officials say Cahill-Gomez was first clocked at 103 mph zipping northbound on Highway 70 north of Sacramento in her grey 2007 Hyundai SUV. An officer pulled her over and issued a citation.
Twenty minutes later, another California Highway Patrol officer saw Cahill-Gomez traveling up the same highway and clocked her at 105 mph. The officer pulled her over and issued her a second citation.
The woman was released from custody after posting $1,000 bail, though the exact time of her release was unclear, said CHP spokesman Jeff Larson.
Cahill-Gomez told CBS 5 that she was rushing to help her 79-year-old mother, who had fallen on her bad knee.
“I’ve never driven 100 mph, so I didn’t know my car could even go 100 mph, but I wasn’t worried about that,” she said. “I was worried about my mom.”
But Larson said there is “no justification” for driving at such high speeds.
“That’s putting everybody on the highway at an extreme amount of danger,” he said, adding that this is not the first time a driver has been ticketed multiple times in a short time span.
“I’ve seen it happen once or twice with people who are trying to make a flight,” Larson said.
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