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Driver busted with Halloween-themed fake passenger to use HOV lane

Oct 30, 2025, 6:57 AM

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A photo of the fake passenger a driver attempted to use to drive in the HOV lane of I-5. (Photo courtesy of WSP)

(Photo courtesy of WSP)

The Washington State Patrol (WSP) caught another driver using a fake passenger in order to ride in the HOV lane.

This fake passenger fit the Halloween theme, with WSP Trooper Rick Johnson calling it a “scary HOV violation.”

Johnson is reminding the public that items do not count as humans. The driver was pulled over on northbound I-5 near the I-90 interchange.

Back in June, a woman had a similar plan, dressing up a fake skeleton in the back seat with a black t-shirt and a paper crown.

Her excuse? That she “accidentally left her Halloween decoration up,” Johnson wrote on X.

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