Michigan trooper gives ride, warning to I-75 scooter rider

WEST BRANCH, Mich. – A 76-year-old woman riding a mobility scooter down the shoulder of Interstate 75 in northern Michigan received a warning and a ride home from a Michigan State Police trooper.

State police say the woman had finished shopping in West Branch on Wednesday afternoon and instead of taking a safer, legal route home, decided to take the expressway.

The Bay City Times reports (http://bit.ly/2tmPhpl ) that after several people called state police to report the slow-moving scooter traveller, Trooper Jeff Devine flagged the woman down, loaded the scooter into his patrol car and gave her a ride to her home about 3 miles away. She had already travelled about 1 mile on the highway.

Devine issued the woman a warning.

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Information from: The Bay City Times, http://www.mlive.com/bay-city