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Culpeper County drivers escaped serious injury Wednesday morning, after 2 separate reports of accidents caused by drivers falling asleep. The first accident was reported at around 8:21 am, according to the Culpeper County Sheriff’s Office. A man’s Toyota Tacoma pickup truck drifted off the U.S. 29 and struck a tractor-trailer that was parked on the [...]
St. Patrick’s Day brings many celebrations and along with it many drunk drivers on Virginia’s roads. The Virginia State Police cite an astonishing NHTSA statistic that 37% of traffic fatalities on St. Patrick’s Day involve a drunk driver. In an effort to reduce alcohol related traffic fatalities, the Virginia State Police are warning excessive partiers [...]
Studies show that aggressive driving often spikes as the whether gets warmer, resulting in the new Fairfax County police initiative, Let’s Eliminate Aggressive Driving. Police will be focusing their efforts during morning and evening rush hour, and will target violations such as speeding, tailgating, unsafe lane changes, running red lights, etc. For more information, view [...]
Technology plays a huge role in the job of an ambulance driver. The driver’s ability to get valuable traffic and navigation information saves seconds, minutes—even lives. But it also presents a huge risk: using gadgets while weaving through traffic at high speeds. Ambulances and police cars are becoming increasingly wired. 75% of police cruisers and [...]
The Virginia State Police are boasting about zero traffic fatalities during the weekend of March 6 and March 7, 2010 while they conducted Operation Air, Land & Speed along Interstates 81 and 95. Last weekend, 7,016 citations and arrests were issued to include: 3,536 speeders; 717 reckless drivers; 20 drunk drivers; 310 seat belt violations; [...]
The police department of Proctor, Minnesota is making its third attempt to auction off a vehicle forfeited after a DWI charge was given to the driver. It wasn’t a car that got Dennis Leroy Anderson charged with a DWI, but rather a motorized chair. The Proctor, MN resident plead guilty to the charge in August [...]
They see it as a thrill—the sheer exhilaration of a stomach drop as a car goes airborne at the very top of a hill. Fine for a roller coaster developed by experienced engineers, but not something you want your newly-licensed teenagers to do in their brand new cars. Called “hill jumping,” or “yumping,” it involves [...]
According to a recent University of California at San Diego study, more and more fatal car accidents in the United States are caused by young women driving while intoxicated. According to colloquial wisdom, young male drivers are most prone to drink and drive in the US. Dr. Virginia W. Tsai and her colleagues decided to [...]
We all think we know what to do when pulled over, but everyone panics just a little. Here are four things to keep in mind when you’re pulled over in Virginia.
It’s an issue that’s come to light nationwide—texting and driving. But do bans work? A recent study says no.
