As emergency services arrived on the scene, Rickerson was asked to move his truck so that personnel could assist with the woman’s injuries.

But Rickerson refused three times, Sgt. R.S. Jeter noted in the report, even going as far as telling the trooper: “I don’t care who you are. You can take me to jail, but I’m not moving my vehicle or leaving this patient right now.”

Rickerson told Channel 2 another bystander moved his truck for him as he rendered aid.

But that wasn’t the end of the situation.

Jeter said when he tried to reason with Rickerson again, he became “belligerent and kept talking over” the trooper.

Rickerson was arrested for obstruction of an officer “due to the fact that he consistently refused to remove his car from the roadway,” Jeter noted in his report.

Rickerson, who has since bonded out of the Pike County jail, told Channel 2 he is fighting the charges and doesn’t regret what he did.

“If I had to do it all over again, I wouldn’t change anything,” he said. “I would still take care of that patient.”

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