None of us know if the young lady who rolled through the stop sign at midnight sped through without slowing or if she slowed to an almost stop. I doubt that being on the Buena Vista Trail at midnight, there would be traffic to contend with.
She was stopped for the incomplete stop by the officer. He determined she was impaired by alcohol and he arrested her. This was a good arrest and she deserves the penalty.
Hopefully, the officer would have just warned her IF she had not been drinking and had slowed to an almost stop at midnight and she posed no danger to anyone. Speeding through the stop sign would be a different story.
Common sense has to come into play.
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