Doing 108 mph on U.S. 36 lands Crawfordsville woman in jail
BAINBRIDGE -- A 44-year-old Montgomery County woman, thinking she was chasing her boyfriend after an argument, landed in Putnam County Jail Thursday afternoon for doing more than 100 mph on U.S. 36.
Just before 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Putnam County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Brian Helmer was cruising U.S. 36 when he spotted a 2016 Honda CRV, driven by Carly Frazier, passing a line of traffic in a double-yellow, no-passing zone.
He clocked the woman at 108 mph in a 55-mph zone, worthy of a reckless driving charge and more.
When Helmer pulled her over, she explained that she thought she had seen her boyfriend’s vehicle westbound on U.S. 36, just west of Shortcut Road (CR 25 West). The couple had been fighting, she told Helmer, and she was trying to catch up with him.
Instead, Helmer caught her, and it turns out the vehicle she was pursuing wasn’t even that of her boyfriend.
“She was cooperative,” the officer said after her pulled her over at the plant store on U.S. 36, “but she was shocked she was going to jail. She thought she was just getting a speeding ticket.”
Instead, she got a ride in the jail van to Putnam County Jail and a baloney sandwich for lunch.
Frazier had a clean driving record otherwise, Helmer said, indicating what she had done was “just dumb.”
“I’m glad we stopped her before she killed somebody,” he added.
Frazier was booked into the jail for reckless driving, a misdemeanor, and cited for passing in a no-passing zone and speeding, 108 mph in a 55-mph zone.