A Woodbury resident picked up a DUI on New Years Day after she recklessly drove by the scene of another traffic stop in Murfreesboro. According to Murfreesboro Police reports 48 year old Cathy Lynn Smith of Woodbury was driving a Silver GMC Jimmy when she almost rear ended one of the Murfreesboro Patrol Cars conducting the traffic stop. Smith came to a complete halt and sped off when Police approached her vehicle. In doing so, she hit the median and sped off into the parking lot of a nearby apartment complex where she parked the vehicle. After police got there, a passenger in the car 43 year old James William Yancey of Murfreesboro was standing at the rear of the vehicle. Smith was still in the driver seat. When questioned, Smith allegedly said that Yancey was driving the vehicle but that she just switched places to protect him as Yancey was intoxicated. The problem was however, that Smith was intoxicated too. Police asked her to perform field sobriety tests and she failed. Yancey was also asked to perform the same tests too and he failed. Smith was arrested and charged with DUI. So much for protecting Yancey as police arrested him for DUI by allowance.
