Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
California Bans Texting While Driving
Sep 25 2008 // California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger reinforced his commitment to keeping California’s roads safe by signing legislation that prohibits drivers from using text messaging devices while operating a motor...
Should States Raise Driving Age?
Sep 22 2008 // Taking aim at a longstanding rite of passage for 16-year-olds, an influential auto safety group is calling on states to raise the age for getting a driver’s license to 17 or even 18. Adrian Lund, president of the...
State Official Says Raising Minimum Age for Drivers Not Popular in S. D.
Sep 12 2008 // Balancing the need to drive and the need for safety is a tough call for South Dakota lawmakers, says state Rep. Garry Moore. But he says a call to raise the minimum age for driver’s licenses has never been warmly...
North Carolina Insured Drivers to See Rate Decrease of 16.1%
Sep 11 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long signed an order requiring a 16.1 percent reduction in private passenger auto rates and a 11.7 percent reduction in motorcycle liability rates. The decreases will become...
Online Broker Upgrades Car Crash Safety Ratings Tool
Sep 9 2008 // Darien, Ill.-based Insure.com, Inc. has upgraded its Car Crash Safety Ratings Tool, which is a free, online information tool that displays car-safety data from both the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety and the...
Plymouth Rock Offers Discounts to Mass. Drivers Who Drive Less
Sep 5 2008 // Boston-based Plymouth Rock Assurance Corp. said it will reward its new and renewing auto insurance policyholders in Massachusetts with lower rates for “going green,” by driving less. Plymouth Rock will lower...
New Jersey Drunken Driving Deaths Drop 6 Percent
Sep 2 2008 // Drunken driving deaths are decreasing in New Jersey. According to new federal data released Thursday by AAA Mid-Atlantic, there were 47 fewer DUI-related deaths in New Jersey in 2007 than the year before. That’s a 6...
Montana Launches Driver’s Ed/Insurance Classroom Training
Sep 1 2008 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison’s office has launched a new auto insurance training program for teen drivers. The program, called “The Road to Understanding Auto Insurance,” is free to high school...
Drunk Driving Fatalities Decline in 32 States But Rise for Motorcyclists
Aug 29 2008 // New national figures show a significant decline in the number of drunk driving-related fatalities occurring nationally and in 32 individual states, according to U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary Peters. However, Peters...
Nebraska County Rejects Anti-Drunken Driving Grant
Aug 29 2008 // The Gage County Board of Supervisors has again rejected a grant to hire an attorney to prosecute alcohol-related crime. The board says it would cost the county too much in the long run because the grant did not cover...
South Dakota: Drunken Driving Convictions Costly
Aug 26 2008 // The South Dakota Highway Patrol is placing special emphasis on catching intoxicated drivers through the coming Labor Day weekend. About 11,700 people were ticketed for drunken or drugged driving last year in the...
Drivers with Serious Violations Allowed on Mass. Roads
Aug 21 2008 // Delays in the processing of criminal traffic violations have allowed a large number of serious violators to remain on the road in Massachusetts after their licenses should have been suspended or revoked. According to State...
R.I. Court Backs Drunk Driving Law
Aug 21 2008 // The Rhode Island high court has backed a 2006 law that applies harsher penalties to drivers who refuse to take a Breathalyzer test. The law doubled the minimum license suspension for those who refused the test to six...
America’s Safest Drivers Travel the Roads in America’s Heartland
Aug 21 2008 // Residents in Sioux Falls, S.D., continued to top the chart as the safest drivers in the U.S., according to the fourth annual Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report. The average driver in Sioux Falls experiences an...
Allstate Targets Texas’ Uninsured Drivers
Aug 20 2008 // Allstate has launched Allstate Blue in Texas, an insurance product aimed at uninsured drivers. The company said Allstate Blue is its seventh statewide product launch in 11 months. It has been estimated that as many as one...
Alabama Troopers to Crackdown on Speeding, Impaired Driving
Aug 19 2008 // Yes, there will be more Alabama state troopers patrolling state highways this week. Beginning Aug. 18, troopers were on the lookout for drivers who violate traffic laws. The Department of Public Safety said troopers will...
Mississippi Launches Concerted Drunk Driving Campaign
Aug 13 2008 // Mississippi state troopers, police officers and sheriff’s deputies are teaming up for a new program aimed at reducing drunk driving. The Mississippi Department of Public Safety is calling the program “Over the...
More New Jersey Drivers Using Seat Belts
Aug 8 2008 // Slightly more New Jerseyans are using seat belts. The state Division of Highway Traffic Safety says May’s “Click It or Ticket” survey found 91.75 percent of drivers using their seat belt. That’s up...
Rhode Island Arraigns Allegedly Drunkest-Ever Driver
Aug 6 2008 // A Rhode Island man who authorities say had a blood alcohol level more than six times the legal limit has been arraigned on a drunken driving charge. Stanley Kobierowski, of North Providence, appeared briefly in Providence...
Road Danger: Thousands of Medically Unfit Commercial Drivers Still Trucking on U.S. Roads
Aug 4 2008 // Hundreds of thousands of tractor-trailer and bus drivers in the United States carry commercial driver’s licenses despite also qualifying for full federal disability payments, and some of those drivers have suffered...
