All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 2 2014 // The Austin, Texas, City Council has approved a law banning the use of hand-held cellphones and many other portable electronic devices while driving.The Austin American-Statesman reports the city council approved the law on...
Aug 28 2014 // Young female drivers have more crashes at intersections and collisions with pedestrians than do young male drivers, who have more off-road and nighttime accidents than young female drivers.Gender is often related to what...
Aug 26 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co.’s 10th annual “Allstate America’s Best Drivers Report” ranks Brownsville, Texas, second safest among America’s 200 largest cities in terms of car collision...
Aug 26 2014 // Slow-paced, sprawling Visalia ranks first in California and seventh nationally as safest among the 200 largest U.S. cities in terms of car collision frequency.Allstate Insurance Co. on Tuesday released its 10th annual...
Aug 26 2014 // Drivers in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, are the most accident-prone in the U.S., landing at the bottom of an annual ranking of the nation’s 200 biggest urban areas by Allstate Corp.Worcester’s drivers...
Aug 21 2014 // Stressing the financial consequences resulting from an auto accident, the Missouri Department of Insurance is focusing on distracted driving and teens in its latest safety campaign.The department’s MO Eyes on the...
Aug 18 2014 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance (LDI) and the Louisiana Automobile Theft and Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (LATIFPA) are also encouraging teen drivers to “Park Smart” with the launch of a new high...
Aug 18 2014 // A settlement agreement in a Lane County, Ore., drunk driving lawsuit appears to award slightly more than $180,000 to the victim’s heirs.The mother and two children of a Cottage Grove woman killed by a drunken driver...
Aug 18 2014 // Wisconsin transportation officials say drunken driving deaths and injuries in the state have dramatically declined over the last decade. The Department of Transportation says the number of fatalities in alcohol-related...
Aug 18 2014 // A settlement agreement in a Lane County, Ore., drunk driving lawsuit appears to award slightly more than $180,000 to the victim’s heirs.The mother and two children of a Cottage Grove woman killed by a drunken driver...
Aug 11 2014 // Driver’s license suspensions in hundreds of criminal cases in Pennsylvania since 2008 are being carried out now because of what York County, Penn., officials say was an oversight.The York Dispatch reported on August...
Aug 11 2014 // Drivers for smartphone-based ridesharing services are facing steep fines from Salt Lake City officials, who assert the drivers are running unlicensed taxi services.Some drivers for the app-based service Lyft say...
Aug 11 2014 // Like many New York City dwellers, Adam Cosentino’s summer ritual includes making the 100-mile trek to the beach towns of the Hamptons every weekend.The 43-year-old isn’t making the journey to play with the rich...
Aug 7 2014 // U.S. parents often ignore warnings from their teenage children by driving while texting or under the influence of marijuana, according to a survey released today by Liberty Mutual Holding Co.Forty-two percent of teen...
Aug 5 2014 // A settlement agreement in a Lane County, Ore. drunk driving lawsuit appears to award slightly more than $180,000 to the victim’s heirs.The Register-Guard reported the mother and two children of a Cottage Grove woman...
Aug 4 2014 // Motorists travelling through New Hampshire are seeing electronic highway signs warning them about distracted driving — the first messages in what will become a full-blown public awareness campaign about a law that...
Aug 4 2014 // A new Maine law that aims to crack down on people with multiple drunken driving violations is among several that kicked in last Friday, roughly three months after the Democratic-led Legislature wrapped up its short,...
Aug 4 2014 // A $1.1 million settlement has been reached in a wrongful death lawsuit involving the death of a 26-year-old pedestrian.The settlement came in a civil lawsuit against Robert Wayne Yount, 83, and the civil case will be...
Jul 29 2014 // An internal audit has found that the Caddo Parish school system has been testing far fewer bus drivers than it should for drugs and alcohol.Federal regulations require random testing each year of at least half the...
Jul 29 2014 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Jim Donelon is urging potential drivers for ridesharing services like Uber to make sure they closely check their insurance policies before signing up with one of the companies. The...