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hurry. She needed him.
But Brice wasn't the only one racing -- a policeman
with his blue light flashing was close behind.
"1 heard a siren and, when I looked in the mirror, I
saw a police officer on a motorcycle," Brice says. "1 told
the officer that there was an Emergency and I needed to
get there and could he follow me. Well, he told me 'No.' 1
told him again that 1 needed to get to see about my grandmother
and mother and he said, "Pull it over.'
"By that time, 1 was within a block of the house; in
fact, 1 could see the house."
But, fearing the consequences of resisting the officer's
oraer, brice says, ne punea over, by then, he adds, he
could see his mother's house and could hear the siren of
an ambulance nearing.
The officer asked if he knew he was speeding, Brice
says. "1 told him, 'Yes, but I'm not doing this to be doing
this. I don't know how fast I'm going, I just need to get
there.'"
Still, Brice says, the officer, who he identified as C.L.
Newsome, refused to allow him to see about his sick
grandmother, who eventually died at Forsyth Memorial
"*~~^T*6sp^ OTTtfrTfIngTmTTa ticket righuhen"
and there, not Cor speeding, but for tunning a red light.
Though he is unsure if he ran a red light or not, Brice
says, he is sure that he stopped at the intersection before
proceeding into the traffic and that he had his emergency
flashers on.
As for the ticket, Brice says, he will accept it, but he is
bothered by what he views as the insensitkvity of the officer
and the fact that the ticket he was issued does not indicate
his violation.
Later, as Brice was getting into his car at his mother's
home to follow the ambulance to the hospital, he says,
another police officer drove up behind him and asked
him to see the ticket he had just received.
"I told him, no, I was in a hurry, and went on to the
hospital," he says.
Brice says it was not until days later that he realized his
ticket did not specify his traffic violation. After realizing
that, Brice says, he called the Police Department to inquire
if his ticket was valid.
Brice says he was told by the sergeant on duty that he
was charged with running a red light and that the officer
could write his"violatioiTohlhe^original wthouflt^ap^
pearing on his copy of the ticket.
"I think it's unfair for him to be able to write anything
(on the original after signing the ticket)," Brice says.
"My copy is a carbon copy but it has no charge on it. The
sergeant said he can write anything on the first copy, ...
but I think it's wrong."
The correct procedure to follow in an emergency, Brice
says Sgt. Walt Luffman told him, is to call the Police
Department and request a police escort. But Brice says
his first instinct was to get to his grandmother as fast as
he could.
"I drove as safely as possible and I had my emergency
blinkers on," Brice says. "1 don't think people know to
call for an escort."
Luffman says no private citizens are allowed to drive as
fast as Brice was traveling and that, under the circumstances,
the officer acted according to police procedure.
"He's trying to make a big deal out of nothing," Luffman
says of Brice. "He was traveling 70 in a 35 (zone)
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desk has been refinished, chairs have been ordered
for the auditorium and the building will be painted in
July or August.
"We have put a lot of money into the branch this
year and, because of that, people have been
coming," Sprinkle-Hamlin says.
Last year, the East Winston library ranked in the
bottom three in circulation among the county's 10
branches, but that has changed recently. Circulation
is up in the adult department and, consequently, new
materials, magazines and books have been placed in
the branch, Sprinkle-Hamlin says.
Adds Jackson: "We want people to know that this
is more than just a library. When you come here, you
are at home and among living history."
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and ran a stoplight. The officer kept trying to get him tc
calm down. He was endangering other people's lives b}
traveling that fast."
Officer Newsome did not allow Brice to leave the scen<
because the officer did not determine that Brice was in
volved in an emergency situation, Luffman says.
"The officer didn't feel it was a real emergency
because somebody was at home with his grandmother,'
he says.
As for Brice's copy of the ticket listing his violation
Luffman says, Brice was told of his violation and viola
tions aren't written on the ticket, but individual block:
listing violations are pre-printed on the ticket and an of
ficer checks whichever ones apply.
The appropriate block was not checked on Brice':
ticket.
Alderman Vivian Burke, chairman of the Board o
Aldermen's Public Safety Committee, says she is awari
of an incident similar to the Brice case and that, accor
ding to standard police procedure, it is proper to issu<
tickets to people speeding, regardless of the emergency
situation. _ _ _
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hospital to see about a patient," Burke says. "When
called the chief (Police Chief Lucius Powell), he told m<
that, if everybody did that, there would be no need t<
have speed laws."
Though Burke acknowledges that citizens should re
quest police escorts during emergencies, the one thing sh<
feels the officer should have done that he didn't do wa
follow Brice to his grandmother's house once he was tol<
of the emergency.
Brice was found guilty in traffic court and fined th<
cost of court June 5. He plans to appeal the case ii
Superior Court.
"1 don't deny that I was speeding," Brice says. "1 jus
think that anybody who thinks about a 99-year-ol<
woman would have some sympathy. But he (the polio
officer) didn't have any sympaihy."
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