Normal to stop the car to check led to the original lesson about the rules of driving in Las Vegas (Nevada) when an employee of the funeral home transported the body of the deceased in the car traveling on the HOV Lane.
Note lane for the movement of vehicles with high occupancy (HOV Lane) is a lane reserved exclusively for vehicles with a driver and one or more passengers.
But in Las Vegas everything happened differently. According to the highway patrol of Nevada (Nevada Highway Patrol), patrol Travis Smak stopped Chrysler Town & Country on interstate 15.
When he approached the car, he saw a man dressed in a shirt with the logo of the funeral home. The car was a hearse.
Today we stopped a local funereal home hearse in the HOV lane. The driver had the dearly departed in the back, he thought the deceased could be counted as two people. I guess we should clarify this, living, breathing people count for the HOV lane. The driver was given a warning pic.twitter.com/OQms0ktl8t
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«The driver immediately admitted that he had in a special Luggage compartment – body — patrol told the Reno Gazette-Journal. When I said that he has no right to go on the allocated strip, he smiled and asked: «what, a corpse is not considered? I thought it can count for two passengers.»
In Nevada Highway Patrol had to clarify: the rules of riding in the HOV Lane refers, of course, live passengers.
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Patrol in the end decided to let go of the driver, but with a warning.
«This man died, so I’ll give you a warning», — the militiaman noted.
«When it comes to lanes with high occupancy, we are talking about the number of passengers. This man died and was in the baggage compartment, so of course the driver had no right to travel on the HOV Lane,» said highway patrol in Nevada.
