Officers Drive 88-year-old Woman Home, 100 Miles

Two Georgia police officers are being hailed as heroes after driving a lost elderly woman from Georgia to her destination in North Carolina. Officer Bill Lowe was dispatched to a Roswell, Georgia gas station last Tuesday where 88-year-old Betty Hill Morris had pulled over to ask for directions. Morris, who had already driven about seven hours from Tampa, Florida, was trying to get to her brother's house in in the small, Smoky Mountain town of Sylva, North Carolina. A man whom Morris asked for directions had called police because, "His assessment was she needed more help than directions,” said Lowe. When they arrived on the scene, Roswell Police found Morris seemed to be disoriented. Paramedics assessed her and found that she was alert, but, “probably not in a position to drive much further." Morris was taken to the nearby North Fulton hospital and later released. Lowe and a 911 dispatcher, Cristy Way, spoke to Betty and her 90-year-old brother, Don Hill, who didn't seem...