The driver wasn’t speeding, but the officers considered the vehicle wasn’t legal because of its potential to seriously distract other road users
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It was a vehicle so festive it could have almost been Santa’s sleigh. There was just one problem: it wasn’t legal.
But the Victorian highway patrol officers who pulled over the driver of the particularly Christmasy BMW on Melbourne’s Monash freeway decided to give him an early present, giving him a warning rather than a $790 fine and a defect notice.
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