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sped down street filled with children  Friday, July 26, 2013
ROCHESTER — A 23-year-old woman from Acton, Maine, is facing a
variety of motor-vehicle charges after police say she sped down
a street filled with pedestrians, some of them children who had
to be pulled from harm’s way.  Rochester police detectives were
performing proactive patrols in the area of Lafayette Street on
Thursday when they say they spotted a vehicle heading down
Lafayette Street that took a left onto Moors court at a high
rate of speed.  Police say Moors court was filled with many
pedestrians, including dozens of children. The detectives
recognized the driver as a woman they had just dealt with a week
earlier and knew she did not have a valid license.  The driver
pulled down the end of Moors court after driving so fast that
parents had to pull their children out of the roadway to prevent
them from being struck b