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Jan. 24, 2020 / 1:32 PM

Driver caught using carpool lanes with skeleton passenger

Think you can use the HOV lane with Skeletor riding shotgun? You're dead wrong! ︎ One of our motor troopers cited the 62-year-old male driver for HOV & window tint violations on SR-101 near Apache Blvd this morning. #NiceTry #YoureNotHeMan #AZTroopers pic.twitter.com/wQYY831mNY— Dept. Public Safety (@Arizona_DPS) January 23, 2020

Jan. 24 (UPI) -- Police in Arizona said they pulled over a driver caught using the carpool lanes with a skeleton as his only passenger.

The Arizona Department of Public Safety tweeted a photo showing the skeleton, wearing a hat and covered in tattered bandages, sitting in the passenger seat of the 62-year-old driver's car.

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The department said the man was diving in the high-occupancy vehicle lanes on State Road-101, near Apache Boulevard in the Tempe area.

The driver was cited for HOV and window tinting violations.

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