A Bibb County deputy pulled over a driver doing 60 mph in a 35-mph zone near Riverside Drive and, as it turned out, the speeding was just the beginning.
What’s Happening: Deputy Dalton Palmer, part of the Bibb County Sheriff’s Office H.E.A.T. Unit, spotted a Toyota with a cracked windshield traveling at nearly double the posted speed limit off Riverside Drive. He stopped the vehicle and took the driver into custody — a decision that kept getting more interesting the longer it went on.
What’s Important: The driver had a suspended license and was also wanted on an active arrest warrant at the time of the stop. Three separate legal issues, one traffic stop — a trifecta that suggests this particular driver had been having a complicated relationship with the law for some time.
How This Affects Real People: The driver was removed from a public road where they were traveling 25 mph over the speed limit, without a valid license, and with an outstanding warrant — apparently in a hurry to get somewhere, though perhaps not somewhere they’d have chosen voluntarily.
Residents near Riverside Drive are safer as a result.
B.T. Clark is the Publisher of The Georgia Sun and author of Principles Are Like Pants… You Ought to Have Some. Over two decades in journalism, he has served as Managing Editor of Neighbor Newspapers in metro Atlanta and Digital Director at Times-Journal Inc., earning multiple awards along the way. His work has appeared in newspapers across the state, including The Cherokee Tribune and The Marietta Daily Journal.
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