Husband Gets Speeding Ticket for Rushing Pregnant Wife to Hospital
"My wife's in labor. Her water just broke. I'm just on my way to the hospital," he can be heard on a recording telling a 911 dispatcher as his wife screamed in the background in agony.
"I knew that he was trying to wholesale jerseys pull me over so I thought the best thing to do was call 911 and let them know that I was going this fast for a reason," he said.
"911 got in touch with him [the trooper], he escorted me the rest of the cheap jerseys way to the hospital and then waited in the emergency room while we gave birth and then handed me the ticket," Coughlin said.
Coughlin said that when he got the ticket he just put it in his pocket and walked upstairs to meet his wife. He said he was in a "different moment at the time" and couldn't think about the speeding ticket.
When her husband told her about the ticket, Angela Coughlin "was shocked, I couldn't believe it," she said.
The New Hampshire state trooper clocked their car traveling at 102 mph on Interstate 293, where the speed limit is 55. But Coughlin said he had no idea how fast he was going and was mostly concerned for the safety of his wife and unborn child.
"I didn't realize how fast I was going at all until he gave me the ticket," he said.
State police Col. Robert Quinn told the New Hampshire Union Leader, "You can't drive at a speed that is so unsafe to yourself and others. That's why we have 911, that's why we have ambulances."
The Coughlin family is fighting the ticket because they say if he pleads guilty and pays the fine, Coughlin could lose his driver's license. They have been to court once and are returning Monday.
"I thought once we went to the first court date that it would just get thrown out; I thought it was just nonsense," Angela Coughlin said. "I thought maybe he had to write us a ticket because we had called it in but I didn't know it would escalate this far."