All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 16 2012 // An Ohio woman caught on camera driving on a sidewalk to pass a Cleveland school bus that was unloading children stood in the cold recently at an intersection holding a sign warning people about idiots.A Cleveland Municipal...
Nov 16 2012 // Employers tripled their employment verifications of commercial drivers during the first half of 2012, possibly indicating that companies are experiencing a driver shortage and are processing more applicants through...
Nov 14 2012 // Texas Rep. Tom Craddick (Midland) has filed House Bill 63, the Alex Brown Memorial Act, which would implement a statewide ban on texting while driving.According to Craddick, House Bill 63 introduces a common sense safety...
Nov 5 2012 // A new report, commissioned by global UK-based insurer RSA, has found that road accidents caused by poor driver vision cost the UK an estimated £33 million [$52.7 million] a year and result in nearly 2,900 casualties, with...
Nov 5 2012 // The driver of an oil field truck has been charged with negligent homicide for the death of a 95-year-old woman who was killed when she drove into a length of pipe that protruded behind the rig.Authorities on Friday...
Nov 5 2012 // A statewide survey shows 27 percent of Nevadans still use hand-held telephones while driving, despite a state law banning the practice that took effect Jan. 1.University of Nevada, Reno, researchers say the third annual...
Nov 4 2012 // The Minnesota State Patrol says unlicensed drivers are more likely to be involved in a deadly crash. Lt. Eric Roeske says statistics from 2011 show unlicensed drivers are twice as likely to be involved in fatal accidents....
Oct 31 2012 // State records in Georgia show that about 50 drivers a month have been convicted of texting and driving in the two years since a law to ban texting went into effect. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported that as of...
Oct 29 2012 // Amanda Umscheid of Paxico said she’ll never get over knowing that her 19-year-old sister died while sending her a text as she drove near Manhattan, Kan., in the spring of 2009.The last thing Ashley Umscheid did...
Oct 24 2012 // The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), part of the U.S. Transportation Department, said this month it is providing $550,000 to Connecticut and Massachusetts to help them devise anti-texting enforcement...
Oct 24 2012 // Delaware’s Office of Highway Safety is making a coordinated effort to combat aggressive driving.Beginning this week and continuing through Nov. 3, law enforcement agencies will be specifically looking for aggressive...
Oct 24 2012 // A statewide survey shows 27 percent of Nevadans still use hand-held telephones while driving, despite a state law banning the practice that took effect Jan. 1.University of Nevada, Reno, researchers say the third annual...
Oct 22 2012 // It’s not just the gas-guzzling SUVs that are hurting the driving fuel efficiency.The growing average weight of Americans is responsible for millions of gallons of additional gasoline used in the country every year,...
Oct 19 2012 // Three police officers in the Portland, Ore. suburb of Beaverton went the extra mile for a hamster found riding in the lap of a driver who was arrested for investigation of DUI.Officer Mike Rowe says 27-year-old Nicole Huey...
Oct 9 2012 // It’s not just the gas-guzzling SUVs that are hurting the driving fuel efficiency. The growing average weight of Americans is responsible for millions of gallons of additional gasoline used in the country every year,...
Oct 8 2012 // Texting while driving is considered a serious public safety concern, but a new University of Michigan study suggests that drivers might not be aware of their actions.U-M researchers found that texting while driving is...
Oct 8 2012 // Alabama senior citizens will have easier access to courses that can qualify them for automobile insurance premium credits under a new state law that allows them to take the courses online. The courses test older...
Oct 8 2012 // New Jersey motorists have another reason to frown about their driver’s license photos. The state has banned motorists from making big smiles because such expressions don’t work with facial recognition software....
Oct 4 2012 // The Association of British Insurers is urging a review of the regulations for younger (17 to 24 year-old) drivers, including some new strictures that would require “a minimum one year learning period, restrictions on...
Oct 3 2012 // Ruth Lape of Somerset, Pennsylvania, decided to stop driving in 1999, but it wasn’t because of any limitations that she felt she had.“It was when we moved to Somerset (from Ohio),” she said. “I...