Last night I was driving my daughter home from daycare. We were heading north on 91. It was rush hour and traffic was backed up.
I saw the sign for the HOV land and it read for “2 or more persons” and I wondered if my infant daughter “counted” as a person for purposes of the HOV lane. Then I thought, a blog post is born!
I hopped in the HOV lane and headed north with my daughter in the backseat. We passed a lot of traffic. I was not pulled over.
I got home and put my daughter to bed. Then I hopped on my computer and started looking for a statute. I couldn’t find one.
Then I checked out the US DOT’s page and found my answer: “all states with HOV facilities count children and infants as passengers”.