Interstate 45 Gulf Freeway’s HOV and toll lanes exit into Metro’s Eastwood Transit Center in Houston in 2012. Twice this summer, a pregnant Texas woman has been ticketed for driving in a North Texas HOV lane. She has argued her unborn child should count as a second passenger. (Credit: Michael Stravato for The Texas Tribune)
When a pregnant North Texas woman was pulled over for driving alone in a high-occupancy vehicle lane, she protested.
“I just felt that there were two of us in [the car] and I was wrongly getting ticketed,” the driver, Brandy Bottone, told The Dallas Morning News in July.
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