All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 10 2007 // Every state has some form of graduated driver’s licensing. It typically restricts nighttime driving and bans teen passengers until drivers rack up hours of driving experience.But Michigan Secretary of State Terri...
Sep 5 2007 // Texans driving without insurance may have a harder time dodging a ticket when the state unveils a $6 million database in January that will give police immediate access to updated coverage information.The Texas Financial...
Sep 5 2007 // When it comes to properly restraining their children in vehicles, many parents are in the dark, according to a survey by GMAC Insurance.The survey found that approximately one in three licensed parents could not correctly...
Sep 4 2007 // A new state law enables the Texas Department of Public Safety to offer more flexibility for the nearly 775,000 drivers who haven’t paid state surcharges for driving violations.The law, which took effect Saturday, is...
Sep 3 2007 // WORKPLACE INJURIES Slight drop in 2006 CREDIT SCORING Still an issue for consumer advocates
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 last...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 a...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...