All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 16 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County court sentenced Jerry S. Amaya of Cedar Creek, Texas, on workers’ comp fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Amaya to one year of probation and...
Oct 12 2006 // Kansas state troopers are urging motorists to watch out as deer breeding season gets under way.The season, which lasts from October to December, causes an increase in car-deer collisions as bucks roam widely in search of...
Oct 12 2006 // A North Dakota woman whose 8-month-old son was found wedged on the floorboard behind the driver’s seat of her car has pleaded not guilty to a charge of abuse or neglect of a child.Sarah Dawn Gwin, 25, of Mandan, also...
Oct 3 2006 // Louisiana Workers’ Compensation Corporation (LWCC) is reminding employers throughout the state to educate their employees about driving safely in the “mobile workplace.” As part of this campaign, the...
Sep 27 2006 // New Hampshire’s motor vehicles director wants elderly drivers to be tested more often.Virginia Beecher told the New Hampshire Sunday News she supports shortening the renewal time as drivers age. She said older...
Sep 26 2006 // Texas hybrid car owners can now take advantage of a 10 percent discount on auto insurance offered by Travelers, the company announced. The discount complements other Texas perks for hybrid drivers.The company clarified...
Sep 25 2006 // Hoping to keep potential drunken drivers off the road, a new designated driver service is offering rides home for its customers and their cars.PointZero8, which started giving rides in San Antonio, Texas, in early...
Sep 25 2006 // Hoping to keep potential drunken drivers off the road, a new designated driver service is offering rides home for its customers and their cars.PointZero8, which started giving rides in San Antonio, Texas, in early...
Sep 19 2006 // Drivers worried about missing a red light or being hit by cars darting out from hidden alleys in Japan may receive assistance from new technology being developed by Nissan.All the world’s automakers are working on...
Sep 18 2006 // New Jersey hybrid owners can now take advantage of a 10 percent discount on auto insurance offered by Travelers of New Jersey.The discount comes on the heels of Governor Jon S. Corzine’s announcement last spring that...
Sep 5 2006 // Tony Barnett has seen it all in his 25 years as a law enforcement officer.But sometimes he’s still surprised by what motorists will attempt to do while they’re driving. According to the National Highway Traffic...
Sep 5 2006 // Hoping to keep potential drunken drivers off the road, a new designated driver service is offering rides home for its customers and their cars.PointZero8, which started giving rides in San Antonio last week, sends two...
Sep 1 2006 // California has strengthened its laws for teenage drivers to reduce the number of injuries and fatalities on state roadways. The American Insurance Association (AIA) has commended Californians for the decision.According to...
Aug 29 2006 // Republican U.S. Senate challenger and former Safeco CEO Mike McGavick, in a remarkable confession of what he called his personal and political shortcomings, revealed a drunken driving incident and discussed his divorce, a...
Aug 25 2006 // Virginia Governor Timothy M. Kaine announced the start of the Checkpoint Strikeforce campaign, a statewide initiative to raise public awareness about drunk driving. The kick-off of the five-month, million-dollar campaign...
Aug 24 2006 // Emergency officials in Salem, New Hampshire are considering billing a driver’s insurance company for a car crash that caused a propane leak last week and shut down part of Route 28 for over a day.Officials estimated...
Aug 22 2006 // Police have stopped about 1,000 vehicles and made 20 arrests in Pittsburgh as part of “Operation Nighthawk,” a regional campaign to crack down on drunken driving, police said.A joint force of Pittsburgh and...
Aug 21 2006 // The designs of passenger vehicles have been improving for years, becoming more protective of their occupants in crashes. Without those improvements, the motor vehicle death rate per registered vehicle would have stopped...
Aug 17 2006 // A bureaucratic error led to the accidental cancellation of 172 Pennsylvania driver’s licenses this week, according to the state Department of Transportation.The licenses have been restored, but residents who received...
Aug 15 2006 // Truck drivers who routinely get too little sleep or suffer from sleep apnea show signs of fatigue and impaired performance that can make them a hazard on the road, according to a major new study by researchers at the...