A New York woman who was going more than 100 miles per hour on Interstate 95 North in Madison, Connecticut, with a 2-year-old in the car told police she was speeding because she was late for a “Thomas the Train” event, according to police.

State police said troopers were conducting motor vehicle enforcement on I-95 North in Madison on Sunday morning when they saw an SUV that was going more than 100 miles per hour just after 8:30 a.m.

They clocked the SUV at 102 miles per hour, pulled the vehicle over in the median and saw a 2-year-old in the back seat, according to state police.

The driver, a 37-year-old woman from Brooklyn, New York, told state police that she was speeding because she was running late to a "Thomas the Train" event in Essex, according to police.

State police arrested the driver and charged her with reckless driving, reckless endangerment in the second degree, risk of injury to a minor and failure to stop on right side of road.

She was released on a $500 bond and is set to appear at Middletown Superior Court on May 16.

Believe it or not, one of the points railroad lawyers always make when evaluating on a proposed steam event is the " attractive nuisance" factor. Anyone traveling to witness a steam event can sue the railroad as being at fault by offering this " attractive nuisance" that "made " them travel to see it and thus get into the accident.

I have personally witnessed this causing the Class 1 to deny permission to operate a steam excursion.

Sad but true. Ross Rowland

The "attractive nuisance" argument is one of the most utterly absurd concepts in the entire construct of the American legal system, and I would throw my full support behind ANY politician that made an effort to put an end to it. It is an absolute affront and insult to the Constitution and out ideals of freedom and personal responsibility.