‘Mom-to-Be Wins in Court’

I am thoroughly disgusted with all the media hoopla and attention given Sue Ann Yasger (five months pregnant) for her so-called “victory” over the citation she received by the California Highway Patrol for driving in the car-pool lane with no one in her passenger seat.

As far as I am concerned, she is just another lazy person who has nit-picked a law to the point where it serves her selfish needs.

None of us likes to drive in heavy traffic on the freeways, but most of us do not go out of our way to bend the rules to suit ourselves. She knows, as well as anyone with any common sense or intelligence, that the car-pool lane law was established to help ease the traffic problem of our overcrowded freeways for all of us, by giving a break to those with two or more people in their cars. The unspoken implication to me is that the second passenger might be a would-be driver who, had he been driving, would add just one more car to our already overcrowded roads.

Mrs. Yasger’s opinion that she should receive special privileges because she is a pregnant woman, and her flippant attitude in the event she gets stopped again (“I’ll just wave my newspaper clippings about my case . . . “), just proves to me that she is just another of the many inconsiderate people using our freeways who believe laws were invented for those other than themselves.

I’m disappointed in Mrs. Yasger and the judge who, “in the interest of justice” dismissed the citation, as they both have made a mockery of the law and the California Highway Patrol officers who enforce the law.

ELAINE SUTPHIN

San Juan Capistrano