All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2023 // The driver of a tanker truck hauling gasoline lost control on a curved off-ramp on Interstate 95, causing the truck to flip and catch fire, leading to the collapse of the northbound lanes in early June, federal safety...
Jun 28 2023 // A trio of property/casualty carrier executives voluntarily offered their views on a growing insurance availability crisis in a state like California at an industry conference last week, pointing to regulatory disconnects...
Jun 27 2023 // Pennsylvania’s state Senate wants to expand a ban on texting while driving and approved legislation on Thursday that would increase the penalties for motorists who are handling their cell phones for almost any...
Jun 23 2023 // ST. LOUIS (AP) – A teenage volleyball player from Tennessee is suing the Missouri city of St. Louis and two drivers who struck her in February, causing her to lose both legs.The lawsuit on behalf of Janae Edmondson...
Jun 16 2023 // A commuter train collided with a pickup truck in Connecticut on Wednesday, injuring the driver and heavily damaging the vehicle, authorities said.The crash happened just before 11:30 a.m. at a Metro-North Railroad street...
Jun 16 2023 // A woman whose car was captured on video vaulting into the air over a tow truck and crashing onto a Georgia highway says she’s recovering after spending two weeks in a hospital and undergoing several...
Jun 15 2023 // A US labor board ruling on Tuesday laid the groundwork for drivers from Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. and other gig workers to formally unionize – a still difficult but potentially transformative task.In a ruling...
Jun 14 2023 // The driver of a tractor-trailer hauling gasoline lost control on an off-ramp and flipped the tanker truck on its side in a wreck that set it afire and destroyed a section of the East Coast’s main north-south highway,...
Jun 12 2023 // Despite a relatively average 2022 wildfire season, fears of wildfires remain at an “all-time high,” and those fears appear to be one driver of decision-making on property insurance.A new report from Gallagher...
Jun 12 2023 // A car veered into a sandwich shop at a mall near Providence, killing one person and injuring five others, authorities said.The crash happened Wednesday afternoon at a Subway restaurant at the Apple Valley Mall in...
Jun 9 2023 // Connecticut lawmakers, still grieving the death of a fellow legislator killed in a wrong-way crash in January, have given final legislative approval to a bill that attempts to address the large increase in wrong- way...
Jun 1 2023 // The driver of the semitruck involved in a fatal crash on Interstate 5 in Oregon earlier this month that left seven farmworkers dead has been indicted on charges of manslaughter, court documents show.A grand jury in Marion...
May 24 2023 // The driver of a semitruck that slammed into a passenger van on Interstate 5 in western Oregon, killing 7 people in one of the state’s deadliest crashes in recent years, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, DUI...
May 23 2023 // The alleged drunken driver who police say slammed into newlyweds riding along a South Carolina beach road now faces a wrongful death lawsuit alongside several establishments accused of overserving her on the night of the...
May 23 2023 // More than 33 million people in the United States are driving vehicles that contain a potentially deadly threat: Airbag inflators that in rare cases can explode in a collision and spew shrapnel.Few of them know it. And...
May 22 2023 // Connecticut lawmakers, shaken by the death of a colleague killed in a wrong-way crash earlier this year, unanimously approved a bill Wednesday that attempts to curtail the growing problem of wrong-way drivers.The...
May 19 2023 // Drivers are kicking the tires and trading up for new auto insurance policies.In the first quarter, new policy growth rate was up 17% over the same period in 2022, and a record-breaking shopping growth rate was up 10.2%...
May 15 2023 // A federal courthouse in Georgia was damaged when the driver of a tractor trailer fell asleep and the truck hit the building last week.The crash into the J. Roy Rowland Federal Courthouse in Dublin happened at about 12:30...
May 12 2023 // A Connecticut state representative and a wrong-way driver were both over the legal limit for alcohol when they were killed in a highway crash in January, according to government officials and state police.Middletown...
May 11 2023 // A Florida man who was driving his Tesla at least 116 mph (186 kph) before crashing into a house and killing two people in 2021 has been sentenced to 27 years in prison.Vaughn Mongan, 45, of Palm Harbor, was sentenced...