Drunk driver tells police she is a ‘thoroughbred white girl’

South Carolina woman tried to avoid arrest by citing her ‘clean, white’ background

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A drunk driver stopped by police told officers she should not be arrested because she was a “clean, thoroughbred white girl”.

Lauren Elizabeth Cutshaw, 32, was pulled over in the early hours of Saturday morning after she ran a stop sign at 60mph in a 30mph zone in Bluffton, South Carolina.

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