Police Called...

So this afternoon, as I'm getting ready to put Ben down for his nap, I get this phone call from the police department of an outlying city around Cincinnati asking for my husband. After much guarded answering and careful questioning, it seems that the license plate for the car I drive (that's in my husband's name) was reported as being involved in an accident on a day and time that I was at home. So, tomorrow afternoon, I have to drive 30-45 minutes, depending on traffic, to this outlying city to let the officer look at my car and show that there is no accident damage to it thus proving that it wasn't in an accident. While I'm happy to be a law-abiding citizen, I'm a little paturbed that I have to put myself out there to clear our good names for something I know dang well we weren't involved in. Whatever happened to innocent until proven guilty? or is that only IN a court of law?

On the way to the grocery store tonight, my husband was very fretful about getting involved in an accident going to or from the store. How would we prove that we weren't involved in this other accident? And what would happen if I got involved in an accident going to the zoo tomorrow? Anyone could hit my car in the parking lot.

On the flipside, I've got this sneaky suspicion that I'm walking into some sort of trap. I go flow of traffic and occasionally that makes me a speeder. My husband, while not liking to speed, does sometimes speed to go flow of traffic. He just took my son up to visit his mom on Saturday and drove past this outlying city on the highway. I'm wondering if this isn't some new ploy by the police where they take down the license plates of the speeders instead of pulling them over and then call them in about something else and then present them with a speeding ticket. We'll have to see....