CHP\u2019s Baldwin Park office on Thursday<\/a>, officers pulled over a driver in the high-occupancy vehicle lane of the 10 Freeway and found a jacket wrapped around the passenger seat headrest.<\/p>\n\u201cNice try \u2014 but jackets don\u2019t count toward Carpool Lane requirements,\u201d the CHP said in its post.<\/p>\n
The incident unfolded when an officer on motorcycle patrol noticed the vehicle traveling in the HOV lane and initially passed it, authorities said.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe officer was on patrol on his motor and saw the vehicle in the HOV lane and passed the driver,\u201d said Marissa McIntire of the CHP\u2019s Southern Division.<\/p>\n
McIntire said the officer became suspicious after a second look at the vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe officer observed the vehicle again and thought it was fishy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The officer pulled over the driver to get a closer look. Upon walking up to the vehicle, the officer saw the \u201cpassenger\u201d was a jacket wrapped around the front seat with a seat belt fastened to resemble a person. <\/p>\n
The driver was cited for violating the carpool lane, which could be more than a $400 ticket.<\/p>\n
CHP officials regularly conduct enforcement operations targeting improper use of carpool lanes, including drivers attempting to evade rules by using mannequins or other objects to mimic passengers.<\/p>\n
\u201cFictitious friends and mannequin copilots won\u2019t cut it,\u201d said CHP officials. <\/p>\n
Authorities did not release the identity of the driver.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When it comes to cheating the carpool lane in California, drivers can be creative. There was the safety…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[6577,102514,7,9,8,102509,852,287,43860,102515,102510,102511,102513,102512,2322,16208,2429,178],"class_list":["post-225004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-authority","tag-baldwin-park-office","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-carpool-lane-cheater","tag-chp","tag-driver","tag-hov-lane","tag-improper-use","tag-jacket","tag-mannequin","tag-marissa-mcintire","tag-motorcycle-patrol","tag-officer","tag-passenger","tag-thursday","tag-vehicle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}