Latest Personal Auto Headlines
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Car Crash Deaths Increase Starting at Age 12, Study Finds
May 5 2008 // Child passengers ages 12 to 16 are more likely to die in a car crash than younger children, according to a study released in the Archives of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine. That risk increases with each teenage...
N.J. Approves Jobs, Education as Driver Rating Criteria
May 5 2008 // New Jersey insurers using education and employment to rate drivers for risk are justified in doing so and the practice does not amount to racism or classism, according to a new, 581-page report released by Garden State...
South Carolina Teens Can Text and Talk while Driving
May 2 2008 // South Carolina lawmakers decided it’s OK for 15- and 16-year-olds to talk and text message on cell phones while driving. The House voted April 30 to send a measure blocking such activities back to a committee, ending...
Arizona Driver Involved in 10 Hit-and-Run Wrecks before Capture
May 1 2008 // The Arizona Department of Public Safety says a driver arrested after a hit-and-run wreck on a Phoenix-area freeway had been involved in 10 accidents before he stopped. Tempe police arrested 46-year-old Rosendo Duenas of...
Arizona Officials Nab 15 Impaired Drivers at Tucson Checkpoint
Apr 30 2008 // Tucson, Ariz. police used a sobriety checkpoint to pull over 1,084 drivers while arresting 15 on suspicion of drunken driving, city police said in a statement about the operation. The checkpoint ran from early on April 25...
12 Hurt in North Carolina Greyhound Bus Wreck after Driver Falls Asleep
Apr 25 2008 // Twelve people have minor injuries after a bus driver fell asleep at the wheel and the vehicle veered off the road and turned onto its side about 40 miles north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The North Carolina Highway Patrol...
New Jersey Regulators: Jobs, Education Are Sound Criteria to Rate Drivers
Apr 25 2008 // New Jersey insurers who use education and employment to rate drivers for risk are justified in doing so and the practice does not amount to racism or classism, according to a new, 581-page report released by Garden State...
Westfield Joins Mid-Ohio School to Launch Teen Driving Safety Program
Apr 24 2008 // In response to the national epidemic of driving accidents and fatalities impacting teenagers, The Mid-Ohio School has announced a multi-year partnership with Westfield Insurance to create a unique safety initiative for...
Tennessee Senate Measure would Ban Lawyers from Impaired Driving Ads
Apr 24 2008 // Tennessee defense attorneys would be banned from advertising their expertise with drunken driving cases under a bill advancing in the Senate. Sen. Rosalind Kurita, a Clarksville Democrat, successfully added the provision...
Vermont Considers Special Car Locks for Repeat Drunk Drivers
Apr 23 2008 // The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee says he wants Vermont to study special ignition locks for repeat drunken drivers that would require a clean breath test before allowing a car to be started. “My intention...
Ignoring Flood Signs could Bring Reckless Driving Charge in Tennessee
Apr 23 2008 // Drivers who ignore flood warning signs or barricades could be charged with reckless driving under a bill passed by the Tennessee Senate. The Senate voted 33-0 on Monday to approve the measure sponsored by Sen. Bill Ketron,...
South Carolina Gov. Signs Impaired Driving Bill into Law
Apr 22 2008 // South Carolina Gov.Mark Sanford signed a new law last week to toughen the state’s penalties for driving under the influence and to remove enforcement loopholes. The bill significantly strengthens the state’s...
No Mass. Workers’ Comp For Sleepy Big Dig Employee Hurt Driving Home
Apr 21 2008 // A construction worker on Boston’s “Big Dig” highway project is not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits for injuries he suffered after he fell asleep while driving home late from work, the...
Virginia Students’ ‘Safety Bug’ Ride Mimics Drunk Driving
Apr 21 2008 // Salem (Virginia) High School students got firsthand experience with drunken driving on a recent morning. Almost 100 students buckled into the Safety Bug, a yellow Volkswagen Beetle designed to mimic the effects of drunken...
U of Buffalo Opens Safe Driving Simulator Lab
Apr 21 2008 // A new driving simulation laboratory is now open for business in the University at Buffalo School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. The state-of-the-art facility, housed in UB’s New York State Center for Industrial...
La. House Committee Approves Bill Limiting Drivers’ Cell Phone Use
Apr 16 2008 // Cell phone use by drivers would be restricted heavily in Louisiana, if the full Legislature agrees to a bill approved by the House Transportation Committee. The measure would ban the use of text-messaging while driving and...
Connecticut Opens Center to Promote Safer Driving by Teenagers
Apr 14 2008 // The state Department of Motor Vehicles is setting up a safe driving program for teenagers in response to several fatal car accidents in Connecticut over the past year. Gov. M. Jodi Rell says the Center for Teen Safe...
Maryland Lawmakers Put Off Bills on Teen Driving until 2009
Apr 14 2008 // Supporters of bills that would put new restrictions on teen drivers in Maryland are vowing to try again next year. Several teen driving proposals died in the recently concluded legislative session. The only one to pass was...
Creator of Delaware Teen Driving Program Has Felony Record
Apr 11 2008 // Officials in Delaware say they’ve learned the man behind a safe driving course being offered to Delaware teenagers has a felony record. Authorities say Paul Burris was convicted in 2005 in Florida in a grand theft...
Texas Attorney General Acts to Halt Sale of Fake Driver’s Licenses
Apr 11 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has charged a Houston company with selling fake driver’s licenses to immigrants. An enforcement action filed by the Attorney General asked the court to stop the defendants, Centro...
