Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
DRUNKEN DRIVING
Sep 3 2007 // WORKPLACE INJURIES Slight drop in 2006 CREDIT SCORING Still an issue for consumer advocates
New Way for Parents to Observe How Their Teens are Driving
Aug 31 2007 // Some Colorado teens have more than the police on their trail. An insurance company has offered to set up cameras in their cars that observe drivers. Incidents of risky driving were reduced 70 percent in a national test...
‘Smart’ Cars Could Make Driving Safer, Researchers Say
Aug 23 2007 // Cars already automatically lock doors when they sense motion and turn on warning lights if they detect potential engine problems. But they are about to get smarter. The augmented cognition research team at Sandia National...
Kan. Law Raises Concerns about Uninsured Drivers
Aug 22 2007 // A new Kansas state law that recently went into effect, making it harder for illegal immigrants to get driver’s licenses after July 1, has raised concerns that it will increase the number of unlicensed and uninsured...
Federal Officials Release Data on Drunken Driving Fatalities
Aug 22 2007 // Texas led the nation with 1,354 drunken driving fatalities in 2006 and was among the states to record the largest increase in such deaths, federal transportation officials said. The National Highway Traffic Safety...
Fla. Drivers Told Property Damage Liability Still Needed If No-Fault Expires
Aug 22 2007 // Florida drivers will still need to purchase property damage liability insurance even if the state’s no-fault insurance system disappears Oct. 1, a lawyer for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles...
Seat Belt Saves Choking Oregon Driver
Aug 17 2007 // A seat belt saved a Eugene, Ore., driver, police say, but not in the usual way. Steven Earp, 48, was eating a fast-food sandwich this week, said police Sgt. Doug Mozan. Earp choked and blacked out. His 1997 Honda sedan hit...
Okla. Lawmaker Proposes Ban on Cell Phone Use by School Bus Drivers
Aug 16 2007 // Legislation proposed by an Oklahoma state representative would prohibit school bus drivers from talking on their cell phone while driving the bus. The measure by Rep. Paul Wesselhoft, R-Moore, would also forbid teenagers...
Judge Hears Appeal on Ruling That Quashed Va. Bad Driver Fees
Aug 10 2007 // There was no rational basis for state legislators to assess surcharges for bad driving only on Virginians and not nonresidents, a lawyer for a repeat traffic offender told a judge considering whether the fees are...
Va. Conservatives File Suit Against New Tax, Driving Fees Law
Aug 9 2007 // Virginia anti-tax conservatives this week filed the broadest legal challenge yet to the new transportation funding law, targeting not just steep fees for bad driving but the fiscal underpinning of the $1 billion-a-year...
Truck Driver Burned in N.Y. Steam Pipe Blast Sues Con Ed
Aug 9 2007 // A tow-truck driver and his passenger burned in last month’s massive steam-pipe explosion in New York City have filed lawsuits against Consolidated Edison, accusing the utility of misconduct. Gregory McCullough, 21,...
Fla. Woman Runs over Instructor During Driving Lesson
Aug 7 2007 // A man giving a 30-year-old Naples, Fla., woman a driving lesson had to be airlifted to a hospital after the woman accidentally ran over him, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said. David Tanner, 51, was teaching...
Court challenge to Va.’s bad driver fees delayed
Aug 6 2007 // The first court challenge to prohibitive fees Virginia is imposing on bad and dangerous drivers was postponed in a Henrico County court late last month. Anthony Price, charged with his fifth violation for driving on a...
Court challenge to Va.’s bad driver fees delayed
Aug 6 2007 // The first court challenge to prohibitive fees Virginia is imposing on bad and dangerous drivers was postponed in a Henrico County court late last month. Anthony Price, charged with his fifth violation for driving on a...
Virginia Judge Throws Out Controversial Bad Driving Fees
Aug 2 2007 // A Virginia judge has put up a roadblock to the state’s sizable penalties for bad driving. In the first known court challenge to the fees, Henrico County General District Judge Archer L. Yeatts ruled that the new fees...
La. Couple Admits Staging Car Crashes
Jul 30 2007 // A New Orleans man and woman have admitted that, from 1997 through 2004, they collected at least $51,000 in insurance on fender-benders they caused on purpose. Elton Calloway, 36, and Rosalyn Bradley, 28, were ordered to...
First Court Challenge to Va.’s Hefty Bad Driver Fees Delayed
Jul 27 2007 // The first court challenge to prohibitive fees Virginia is imposing on bad and dangerous drivers was postponed in a Henrico County court Tuesday. Anthony Price, charged with his fifth violation for driving on a suspended...
R.I. drivers denied day to prove insurance
Jul 23 2007 // Siding with State Police who said it would create an “unnecessary and burdensome increase in paperwork,” Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri for the second year has vetoed a bill to give motorists who are ticketed...
Pa. therapist not liable for patient’s car crash
Jul 23 2007 // A psychiatrist cannot be sued for a car crash caused by a patient, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled. The Superior Court ruling upholds a decision written by a Blair County judge dismissing the lawsuit filed by Matthew...
Virginians question bad driving penalties
Jul 23 2007 // The Virginia General Assembly may have to address the issue of punitive and recurring bad-driving fees, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine acknowledged after callers on a radio show recently pressed him about why out-of-state drivers...
