When does high occupancy begin?Last November, a Phoenix police officer pulled a driver over for improper use of a carpool car·pool n. also car pool 1. An arrangement whereby several participants or their children travel together in one vehicle, the participants sharing the costs and often taking turns as the driver. 2. lane. The officer said the driver was the only one in the car; the driver, who was pregnant, said she was not, because her unborn child was with her. The woman appealed her fine, contending that Arizona traffic laws do not define when life begins. Early this year, a municipal court judge ruled against her; "common sense," he held, suggests that given the purpose of high-occupancy vehicle lanes  This article or section may be confusing or unclear for some readers.Please [improve the article] or discuss this issue on the talk page. , an individual passenger must occupy a "separate and distinct" space in the car. (1) As far as FYI "For your information." See digispeak. FYI - For Your Information has determined, there has been no response from the Vatican. (1.) Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. , Judge: don't count fetus for carpool quota, Jan. 11, 2006, <http://www.nytimes.cong aponline/national/AP-Fetus-Carpool. html?pagewanted=print>, accessed Jan. 12, 2006. |
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