NEWPORT, Ky. (CBS Local) — A woman driving a mobility scooter the wrong way on a busy Kentucky freeway was pulled over by police officers Monday afternoon.
The woman took the scooter from a local Kroger grocery store, according to police in Newport. She allegedly drove it through a maze of traffic, down the exit ramp and onto Interstate 471, heading northbound in the southbound emergency lane.
READ MORE: Third Stimulus Check: Will Your Next Relief Payment Be $1,400?“She was up against the wall, traveling in the emergency lane,” said Lt. Paul Kunkel with the Newport Police Department.
She had made it nearly a mile from the store before she was stopped by officers just south of the Daniel Carter Beard Bridge into Cincinnati.
Shopping scooter on the interstate!!! From the- you ain’t gonna believe this – file. Woman takes a shopping scooter from Newport Kroger. Goes North in Southbound emergency lane on 471. Police divert a potential disaster. @WLWT pic.twitter.com/1wS7WJaBPg
— Brian Hamrick (@bhamrick_wlwt) August 26, 2019
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The veteran Kunkel said he couldn’t recall a traffic stop like this one.
“In my police career, no. This is unique,” he told WLWT
Police said the woman was suffering from a “mental episode” and taken to a facility “where she could get the help she needed,” WLWT reported.
MORE NEWS: Stimulus Check Update: Are Relief Payments Bad For The Economy?The grocery scooter, which still had plenty of remaining battery power, was returned to Kroger.