Apparently, innovative legal arguments don’t work when you’re fighting a ticket for riding alone in the car pool lane.
Unborn children don’t count when it comes to carpool lanes, according to a judge’s ruling.
Even after being fined $367 for improper use of a High Occupancy Vehicle lane, Ahwatukee Foothills resident Candace Dickinson stood by her contention that Arizona traffic laws don’t define what a person is, so the child inside her womb justified her use of the lane.
“To follow her philosophy would require officers to carry guns, radios and pregnancy testers, and I don’t think we want to go there,” said Sgt. Dave Norton, the Phoenix police officer who cited Dickinson on Nov. 8.
Nice try, I guess.
