If im driving with a dead body in the car will I be able to use the CARPOOL?

FaZizzle

Sure, though I think the smell would counteract the positives of using the carpool lane.

Catman

not if its in the trunk

ca_surveyor

Ok.. its a good question both for the image but also for a little bit of historic insight.

Here in California (where else - right). Your issue has already come to the court:

A driver for a funeral home was cited for driving in the carpool lane with 4 or 5 corpses in the 'pickup' van. He was cited and took it to court. His arguement, was that these cadavers constituted passengers and therefore he met the car pool requirement.

The judge, however, disagreed, citing that once a person dies, his cadaver is simply an inanimate object and no longer qualifies as a human or (obviously) a living being.

(a corpse is a corpse of course of course and no one can drive with a corpse of course unless of course ... etc etc.. sorry I could not resist a REALLY bad pun)...

Ok.. another one for you:

Also in California, a woman was cited in the carpool lane and took it to court saying that she was 8 months pregnant and that the unborn fetus was therefore a passenger in her vehicle and should count.

Again, the court disagreed. Unborn is exactly that.. and while the right to lifer's would jump in there with a word or two, the judge pointed out that the potential commuter was really involuntary and it was not like he/she had a choice in the matter. This defeated the concept of the carpool. He did allow that, had the baby been BORN in the carpool lane or in the process of birth that in such a case the (new) person would indeed become a passenger and not simply 'carry-on'.

like I said... only here in California

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Clevis D

Yes...all the way to the gas chamber.

david z

if a pregnant woman can use the carpool lane with an unborn child.
a dead person should be even better.

allisonbowler

I would

Eagleflyer

No. Plus if you do get pulled over, you would have a lot of 'splainin to do.

justdavesplace

I dont see why not~

SAORI

if it's at night..sure why not...i used a doll one time...

Don E

The highway patrol would be able to advise IF you can get any body on the phone.

bub15

actually, a mortitioner tried this and when pulled over told the cop that the 3 dead bodies in the back should count. he was given a tiket and went to court over it. the judge ruled against him saying that the people must be alive to count.

Shelly t

yup

surelynotme

The two of you will get wet when your car goes in the pool.

I think the person has to have a pulse to count as a carpool..

John B

To answer the question while avoiding it completely, Yes you would be able to use the carpool because you can use the carpool with no one else in the car even though it is illegal to do so (man, I should be a politician)

D-man

no, but I think it might vary depending on the state

"Then there was the Los Angeles undertaker who was prosecuted for driving his hearse on an HOV lane with not passengers. He appealed against his conviction on the grounds that he was carrying a body in a coffin.

He lost."

Taken from http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/89422.stm

ddcass

you are a waste

artsy5347

You'll be the first to cry foul when the FBI shows up at your door. What a stupid thing to write in a public forum. Nice knowing you...

Ernie A.

I had a friends years ago, she was cited for driving in the car pool lane with two dead bodies. Well she took it to court and won her case because there was nothing posted that bodies had to be breathing. It was on a old People Court.

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