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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I am not a traffic law expert but I have one of these so I think I know what this is about. You can flip the pass from HOV to SOV. If you have 2 people in your car, then
you flip it to HOV mode. If not, then you keep it in SOV mode. All the camera does is “see” which mode your pass is in. If it is in HOV mode, then no toll. If it is in SOV mode, the you have to pay a toll.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I always wondered how you catch cheaters who drive in the HOV lane with the pass in HOV mode regardless of how many people are in the car. The only way (I think) is that a
trooper sees him as a SOV in the HOV lane and pulls him over. Then he checks his computer which showed that he had his pass flipped to HOV. Could have been inadvertent or it could have been his way of trying to drive in the HOV lane without paying the toll.
That’s my best guess as to what happened. Now how you get out of that, I don’t know!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com <wsbarp-bounces@lists.wsbarppt.com>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Dave Culbertson<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, October 31, 2022 2:53 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> solo-and-small-practice-section@list.wsba.org; creditor-debtor-section@list.wsba.org; wsbapt@lists.wsbarppt.com; wsbarp@lists.wsbarppt.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [External Email] [WSBARP] An HOV Violation question<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Hi, folks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Helping a friend address a traffic violation. The charge is for being in the HOV lane without additional passengers.<o:p></o:p></p>
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Something about the officer’s description raises a question: “<span style="font-family:MicrosoftSansSerif">OBSERVED DEFENDANT VEHICLE PASS UNDER TOLL CAMERA AND WHITE LIGHT ACTIVATED INDICATING VEHICLE'S FLEX<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:MicrosoftSansSerif">PASS WAS IN HOV LANE MODE.</span>”<o:p></o:p></p>
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I’m not sure how the toll/radar/camera system works, wondering if anybody has developed that info? Is the meaning of the officer’s statement that the toll camera/white light reads the flex pass and determines the car is in the HOV lane, ie, that the white light
is the proof that establishes he was in the lane (as opposed to the officer saying “I put my eyeballs in the direction of the car and saw that it was in the HOV lane?”)<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">There isn’t much more information about that stop than that, other than the officer noting there was only the driver in the vehicle.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Best Regards,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt">Dave Culbertson<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b>The Law Office of Davisson Culbertson</b><o:p></o:p></p>
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