Victoria police let driver of ‘defective’ BMW covered with Christmas lights off with warning

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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