Kendall, I suspect you are right. The lady may well have expressed her indignation in a most unlady like way. That may come out later (but it probably won't). It does sound like a minor infraction, but suppose, just suppose, before the cop stopped her, someone ploughed into her car/pick-up, whatever, and her babies were thrown through the windshield to their death. Would that, then, be a minor infraction? It could have turned out that way.

DougR