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Some drivers in Prince William County and throughout Virginia have been charged and convicted for failing to provide proof of car insurance at a traffic stop and paid hefty fines for committing an offense that does not exist. There is no law in Virginia that you have to carry proof of car insurance with you. [...]
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 [...]
Feel like wasting time? Believe it or not commuters in the Washington, D.C. area already wait a shocking 74 hours in traffic. WUSA 9 reports that you would waste 37 gallons of gas and $1,495 a year during this three day period. This makes you want to kick yourself for not ordering the hybrid with [...]
Vienna Police are warning of a phone scam involving people being called about a false claim of an overdue red light camera ticket. The scam starts with a call to a victim at which time they are informed that they were supposedly caught on a red light camera and have an overdue red light camera [...]
Early Monday morning, former D.C. mayoral candidate Sulaimon Brown was pulled over for a broken headlight on his Mercedes but by the time the police were done, Suliamon was arrested for having a suspended Maryland driver’s license and failing to obey the officer’s order during the traffic stop. Although Brown is claiming that police action [...]
August 3, 2011 – After a 16-year-old driver was clocked at 82 mph by a Spotsylvania Sheriff’s Deputy on Courthouse Road in the Bloomsbury subdivision area, he tried to flee leading the police on a 31 mile chase. The teenage driver was reported allegedly driving at excessive speeds, changing lanes abruptly and running red lights [...]
We are not big on the conspiracy theory stories but this one about the possibility of E-ZPass tracking driving behaviors such as speeding on toll roads caught our attention. For years there have been concerns about privacy and the use of E-ZPass to quickly zip through toll stations and with good reason. While the E-ZPass [...]
HOV lanes in Virginia were intended to encourage carpooling, reduce gas consumption, and ease heavy traffic that is seen daily in the D.C. metropolitan area. If you are lawfully traveling in the HOV lanes in Northern Virginia, it does not take long to spot a HOV violator with too few occupants during posted HOV hours. [...]
You just got pulled over and you are thinking – Will that traffic ticket affect my car insurance rates? The simple answer is, yes it will and you may be surprised at how much. Your driving record is as important as your credit report when it comes to saving money on your auto insurance. When [...]
The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan – ACLU is questioning the Michigan State Police after receiving from what the ACLU said was a credible tip alleging that Michigan State Police were misusing a data extraction device by unlawfully obtaining data from driver’s cellphones during routine traffic stops. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com The [...]
