New Jersey’s first lady issued ticket in statewide crackdown.
Jim Gardner reports during Action News at 6 p.m. on November 2, 2017. (WPVI)
Nov 04, 2017: New Jersey’s first lady has been ticketed in a statewide distracted driving crackdown that was ordered by her husband’s attorney general.
New Jersey Advance Media reports Mary Pat Christie was stopped while driving with a cellphone in her hand on April 10, 2017 in Bernardsville by a police officer assigned to the grant-funded program that targeted texting and other distracted driving.
She didn’t identify herself as Republican Gov. Chris Christie’s wife. But she did tell the officer she wasn’t making a call. The police officer told her she could not have the phone in her hand while driving.
The police officer told her she was getting a ticket because he was on the distracting driving grant detail.
The first lady pleaded guilty to driving with a cellphone and paid the $250 fine.