Something was wrong with two passengers sitting in the back seat of a Ford SUV zooming down the carpool lane on Interstate 80 in Richmond Thursday morning. They didn’t have heads, arms or legs. The passengers, in fact...weren’t even people.
but the driver will face a stiffer penalty because this is the fourth time he has been caught cheating, Baza said. The driver of the SUV was also cited for driving on a suspended license and had his car towed.“We have seen it all, we have heard it all,” he said.
Drivers try to claim their pets or dolls count. Some go into the supernatural realm to try to talk their way out of a ticket. “I pulled someone over that said, ‘I have a couple of ghosts in the car,’ ” Baza said. “It was weird.”“He played with his luck every day,” he said.a diamond lane must move at an average of 45 mph
during peak commute hours. In 2016, California’s highways met that benchmark only 32% of the time, state Department of Transportation data show. A 2016 study by the Metropolitan Transportation Commission in the Bay Area found that 24% of drivers during the peak morning commute and 19% of drivers in the evening commute were carpool cheaters.
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