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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Utah Highway Patrol is cracking down on HOV violators on Interstate 15 after the Utah Department of Transportation found that 20 percent of drivers in the express lane of the freeway are there illegally.
Troopers will be looking for HOV lane violators as well as those who cross in and out of the lane even when there is a double white line.
UDOT estimates that 1 in 5 vehicles in the HOV or express lanes don't belong there, either because there aren't enough people in the vehicle to qualify for it, the driver doesn't have an Express Pass or the vehicle is pulling a trailer.
The HOV crackdown will run from Oct. 16 through Oct. 18 but troopers say they are always looking for violators.
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