All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 4 2006 // Drivers who cause crashes because they’re wolfing down hamburgers or applying mascara would face fines under a transportation plan outlined recently by Independence Party gubernatorial candidate Peter...
Jul 30 2006 // Teens longing to get out on the open road would have to hang up their cell phones and log more hours in behind-the-wheel training before they would be able to get their drivers’ licenses, under a bill passed by the...
Jul 28 2006 // The Commerce Group, Inc. reported 2006 second quarter results showing net earnings were $58.6 million, or $0.86 per diluted share, compared to net earnings of $62.6 million or $0.92 per diluted share for 2005.Included in...
Jul 24 2006 // Despite knowing that driving and talking on a cell phone at the same time is dangerous and that it is safer to use a hands-free device to hold a cell phone, a large majority of drivers with cell phones still talk on the...
Jul 24 2006 // Despite knowing that driving and talking on a cell phone at the same time is dangerous and that it is safer to use a hands-free device to hold a cell phone, a large majority of drivers with cell phones still talk on the...
Jul 21 2006 // Congestion on Britain’s streets is getting worse, but drivers polled by online insurance broker www.motorinsurance.co.uk have a novel solution: ban elderly drivers from the roads.In a shocking display of ageism,...
Jul 20 2006 // The penalties for driving without auto insurance are getting tougher under a new Illinois law.Starting next summer, uninsured drivers will lose their license for three months and have to pay a $100 fee to get it back....
Jul 14 2006 // Pennsylvania high school seniors are increasingly drinking to excess and getting behind the wheel after drinking alcohol or taking drugs, according to a statewide survey. It also found that about one in five has gone to...
Jul 10 2006 // DriveCam Inc. has partnered with American Country Insurance Co. Under the terms of the agreement, American Country Insurance will offer discounts starting at 5 percent to customers who deploy DriveCam’s solution....
Jul 7 2006 // New Hampshire state troopers might have writer’s cramp after a July Fourth holiday weekend in which they stopped 7,000 vehicles, wrote more than 6,000 tickets and made 38 drunken driving arrests. Extra holiday...
Jul 3 2006 // Despite knowing that driving and talking on a cell phone at the same time is dangerous and that it is safer to use a hands-free device to hold a cell phone, a large majority of drivers with cell phones still talk on the...
Jun 19 2006 // New York’s cell phone ban could clear the way for laws against anything that causes accidents, from having a pet in the car to drinking coffee, warns a lawyer fighting to have the ban declared...
Jun 16 2006 // The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety gave Illinois a “fair” rating for the way it issues licenses to new drivers in an updated chart as of May 2006.The Institute assigns licensing systems points for the...
Jun 15 2006 // A study co-authored by a University of Virginia professor suggests that seniors citizens will die in car accidents at a higher rate in the years ahead as America’s 75 million baby boomers age, grow more frail and...
Jun 7 2006 // Despite knowing that driving and talking on a cell phone at the same time is dangerous, and that it is safer to use a hands-free device to hold the cell phone, a large majority of drivers with cell phones still talk on the...
Jun 5 2006 // New Jersey drivers are the “clear winners” due to auto insurance reforms enacted by lawmakers in 2003 according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI), which released a report about the...
Jun 5 2006 // Residents of Sioux Falls, S.D., are the safest drivers in the United States, according to the second-annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report.”The largest city in South Dakota moves up from the...
Jun 5 2006 // Residents of Sioux Falls, S.D., are the safest drivers in the United States, according to the second-annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report.”The largest city in South Dakota moves up from the...
Jun 4 2006 // A Superior Court jury in San Francisco awarded $61 million to two FedEx Ground drivers of Lebanese descent who claimed a manager harassed them with racial slurs for two years.Edgar Rizkallah, 43, and Kamil Issa, 36, said...