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A study in Great Britain using surveillance cameras in various parking lots finally proves that women are better parkers than men. No, that was not a misprint! Men and women drivers were watched and graded on seven different parking styles. Footage showed that women took more time to find a favorable parking space while men [...]
Although the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has no authority to impose a federal mandate to prohibit the use of cell phones while driving, they are pushing states without such laws to start seriously thinking about this safety issue. The NTSB is supporting their position due to the nearly 3,000 lives lost in 2010 alone [...]
Virginia State Police released that during the reportable Thanksgiving holiday weekend from 12:01 a.m. Wednesday, November 23 through midnight Sunday, November 27, 2011, that they investigated 884 traffic accidents with nine people killed on Virginia’s roads during the weekend. Of the nine that were killed, five were reported as not wearing their seatbelts. Also, alcohol [...]
On Tuesday, Daniel Tulk was killed in a car accident on Route 29 Lee Highway in Manassas, Virginia when his vehicle was hit head-on by a dump truck operated by James Dibble. The car accident involved three vehicles when Dibble’s dump truck struck a Ford F-350 and then crossed into Tulk’s lane of travel hitting [...]
Next time you are sitting in traffic, look to the driver to your left, look at your rear view mirror to peek at yourself, and then look at the driver on your right and try to figure out which one of you is driving drowsy. Statically according to the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety, one [...]
The Sports Junkies radio show on 106.7 WJFK had a lot more to talk about on Thursday morning that just sports. At about 7:45 a.m., a Honda Civic crashed into the WJFK offices at 10800 Main Street in Fairfax City. With the building so close to Main Street, the Honda did not have to travel [...]
Christopher Eduard Suarez, 18, of Gainesville, Virginia is now facing more charges relating to the April 20th fatal car accident on Logmill Road in Haymarket that killed two of his passengers, Battlefield High School students Kendra Tucker and Savanna Kidane Mouratidis. Five teenagers were in the car that night and none were wearing seatbelts. Prince [...]
September 19, 2011 – When you see those pretty blue flashing lights on the side of the road, you are required to slow down and move over to the next lane if possible to allow emergency personnel to safely do their jobs. Apparently, Mr. Trout missed this memo this morning. At approximately 5:20 a.m. this [...]
Photo Credit: Woodbridge Patch – Erica R. Hendry August 15, 2011 – The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority confirmed that at around 7:30 a.m. on eastbound Dulles Access Road at Trap Road a Super Shuttle van crashed into the jersey wall causing one of the passengers to be ejected and killed. The name of the victim [...]
On May 31, 2011, we reported on one of Virginia’s most deadliest tour bus crashes that happened in Caroline County north of Richmond killing four passengers and injuring dozens – Driver Fatigue Blamed for Fatal Bus Crash in Caroline County. The NTSB National Transportation Safety Board is blaming driver fatigue when the Sky Express Inc. [...]
