A 20-year-old Gaffney woman almost got out of a traffic ticket by claiming she was on the way to the emergency room with an obstetrics emergency.

But police claim she never went to the hospital after providing that excuse and now she faces 10 tickets that carry fines totaling $3,875.75, among them a $470 ticket for allegedly providing false information to police.

According to a report at the Gaffney Police Department, an officer conducted a traffic stop at East Buford and Laurel streets on Dec. 1 at about 11:30 a.m. and the driver, Cierra Lipscomb, 20, address listed in the report as West Claremont Street, allegedly told the officer she was 20 weeks pregnant and was on her way to the emergency room with what the officer described as “10-rated pain.”

The officer wrote in his report that he advised Lipscomb he would accompany her to the hospital, but that he got held up at the scene by an intoxicated pedestrian.

About five minutes later, according to the report, the officer continued on his way to the hospital but could not locate Lipscomb there.

The officer wrote that he then put out a police broadcast to search for her car and she was found a short time later. The officer claimed Lipscomb admitted providing false information to elude arrest.

Lipscomb was ticketed for reckless driving, operating an uninsured vehicle, suspension of registration and plates, improper lane change, driving under suspension first offense, an address change violation, possession of a suspended driver’s license, possession of a suspended tag, a child restraint violation and providing false information to police.