A bit of a human interest story from fifteen miles away - from Seattle station KOMO:
Trooper on 6 mph escort to woman on scooter: 'Just trying to get her home'
Another encounter between law enforcement and the public is drawing all sorts of attention.
Drivers and residents along State Route 546, near the U.S. - Canadian border, saw what appeared to be a slow-speed pursuit Tuesday and started posting to social media.
Video showed what looked like a trooper trying to pull over a woman on the highway.
The woman, in her 80s, was on a motorized scooter. Maximum speed: 6 miles an hour.
"What it looked like at the time was this older lady on a Rascal cruising down the road. The cop car with the lights flashing going behind her is what caught my attention," said Andrea Ruth, whose office faces the highway, where the speed limit is 45 miles an hour. "You can't make that stuff up."
And the backstory
"I wasn't trying to stop her. I wasn't trying to detain her. I was just trying to get her back to her home," said Trooper Dave Hintz with the Washington State Patrol. "I just treated her the way I would've wanted somebody to treat my mom."
The woman had gone out for coffee in Lynden Tuesday afternoon, but got lost while trying to get home, troopers said. When Hintz caught up with her, she was nearly four miles from her house and continuing to head in the wrong direction.
Really glad this turned out well - SR-546 is a very busy highway.
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