Grandmother Alma Smith copped a $352 fine for beeping her horn while attempting to avoid a collision. Her actions were described by police as unnecessary and excessive. em_partridge 9News MORE:
grandmother who claims she honked her horn to warn someone pulling out in front of her, never expected that she would be the one fined over the near miss.In June the 85-year-old was driving to work at Myer in Roselands when she got a fright driving along Belmore Road at Riverwood.
"There was cars parked and this guy just went 'flip' in front of me. I thought I was going to collide with him so I applied the brakes and the horn," she told 9News.Moments later the grandmother was pulled over. "Apparently there was a copper behind her counting - three seconds is okay and four seconds isn't," her son Warwick Smith said."He said I had used the horn excessively, unnecessarily and that's like road rage.
"I went silent for a moment and I said, 'are you kidding I have never heard of that and I have been on the road driving for over 60 years'.
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