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With texting and driving bans enacted in many states nationwide, how is installing a Facebook application in a car not distracted driving? General Motor Co.’s OnStar, a system designed to provide accident alerts and diagnostics, is scheduled to release a system upgrade to rival Ford’s Sync. Ford upped the ante last year when they released [...]
Traffic cops in New Delhi, India, have begun writing tickets based upon pictures uploaded to their “tattletale” Facebook page (here). While streets in New Delhi are notoriously clogged, there are only about 5,000 traffic cops for their 6.5 million registered motor vehicles. Pedestrian accidents are commonplace. So they opened their Facebook page. Click on the [...]
An incident of road rage involving gunfire occurred on March 23, 2010 during evening rush hour when a dump truck tried to merge into traffic on southbound I-95 in the Woodbridge/Dumfries area. The details of the event are not clear but apparently both drivers became aggressive while traveling on I-95 south for several miles. 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 [...]
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 million dollar question for this story is – How do you hit a pedestrian with your car and drag him for miles without knowing about it? This is exactly what happened on the evening of Monday, February 22, 2010, when 39-year-old Carroll Henry Humphries of Manassas Park was trying to walk across Centreville Road [...]
Adrian Hill, an employee of the exotic car dealership St. Louis Motorsports, is facing charges of careless and imprudent driving for speeding up to 150 mph while test driving a Lamborghini which just happened to be his employer’s high performance sports car. You may be asking why this story is so unusual? Well, Adrian Hill [...]
In the early hours of May 30, 2009, in North Tonawanda, New York, 17-year-old Ashley Sullivan lost control of her vehicle and crashed into a brick sign in front of Deerwood Golf Course. As a result of the car crash, her 20-year-old boyfriend, Alex Rozicki, was killed and she was charged with DWI and criminally [...]
Watch CBS News Videos Online January 26, 2010 – Since only 19 states and the District of Columbia have passed laws making texting while driving illegal, the U.S. Government took it upon themselves to address the growing epidemic of distracted driving and established a nationwide law banning drivers of commercial vehicles to include trucks and [...]
New Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell wants to make good on one of his campaign promises – increase the speed limit to 70 mph on rural sections of I-95, I-64, I-81 and I-77. NBC12 ; We think we can get traffic moving a little quicker in the more sparsely populated areas of Virginia … and do [...]
