CHP in Santa Fe Springs busts driver with mannequin passenger in carpool lane


by ABC7 Los Angeles

ABC7 Los Angeles— BUSTED! CHP nabbed a driver caught using the carpool lane with a mannequin as a passenger. "We've gotta give it to them, the appearance is next level modeling but at the end of the day plastic is plastic."

Los Angeles Times—Carpool lane driver in Santa Fe Springs caught with mannequin in the passenger seat. Los Angeles traffic is so notoriously bad, some residents might be willing to do anything to cut down on wait time — including driving with a mannequin in the passenger seat. A California Highway Patrol officer in Santa Fe Springs stopped a driver recently for crossing solid double lines to enter a carpool lane, only to bust them for having a plastic dummy instead of another human in the passenger seat, the CHP wrote in an Instagram post Thursday. The agency posted a photo of a dummy buckled...

TMZ—Carpool Driver Caught with Elaborately Disguised Mannequin as Passenger. Two heads are better than one -- and, absolutely necessary to ride in the carpool lane -- but ya gotta make sure those heads are flesh and bone and not plastic, like this one was. One driver learned that lesson the hard way in Santa Fe Springs,…

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