A pregnant woman tried to avoid a ticket for driving alone in a carpool lane, saying her fetus is a person, local media reports
A pregnant woman in Texas is fighting a traffic fine for having driven in a high occupancy vehicle ‘carpool’ lane, arguing that her unborn child should now be considered as a second occupant of the car, local media reported on Friday.
According to NBC 5 DFW, in June 2022, Brandy Bottone, from the city of Plano, was driving the Central Expressway when she was pulled over. The current rules allow drivers to use a high-occupancy lane only if there are two or more people present in a vehicle.
When the officer stopped the car, he started to look for other passengers and asked the expectant woman if she was alone, Bottone recalled. “No there’s two of us,” she replied, pointing to her stomach. At the time, Bottone was 34 weeks pregnant.
“And then I said, ‘Well I’m not trying to throw a political mix here but, with…
