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Technology plays a huge role in the job of an ambulance driver. The driver’s ability to get valuable traffic and navigation information saves seconds, minutes—even lives.
But it also presents a huge risk: using gadgets while weaving through traffic at high speeds.
Ambulances and police cars are becoming increasingly wired. 75% of police cruisers and [...]
The Virginia State Police are boasting about zero traffic fatalities during the weekend of March 6 and March 7, 2010 while they conducted Operation Air, Land & Speed along Interstates 81 and 95. Last weekend, 7,016 citations and arrests were issued to include:
3,536 speeders;
717 reckless drivers;
20 drunk drivers;
310 seat belt violations; and
35 drug [...]
The police department of Proctor, Minnesota is making its third attempt to auction off a vehicle forfeited after a DWI charge was given to the driver.
It wasn’t a car that got Dennis Leroy Anderson charged with a DWI, but rather a motorized chair.
The Proctor, MN resident plead guilty to the charge in August of [...]
Several methods of public humiliation have been tried to deter repeat DWI/DUI offenders to include posting the repeat offender’s picture and name in the local newspaper, stripping them of their driver’s license, or requiring the installation of an ignition interlock system. The intent remains the same – to simply make it too embarrassing [...]
Currently in Virginia, anyone riding in the front seat of a vehicle must wear a seat belt.
A bill from Sen. Janet Howell broadens the restriction to include minors, no matter where they are in the car.
The Senate today agreed to a House amendment exempting taxicabs, and the bill now goes to the desk [...]
A class-action lawsuit is underway for drivers that received a speed camera ticket from Montgomery County, Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Chevy Chase Village alleging that the speed cameras have been operating in violation of Maryland law.
The claimants of the lawsuit are asserting that Montgomery County, Rockville, Gaithersburg, and Chevy Chase are allegedly paying [...]
They see it as a thrill—the sheer exhilaration of a stomach drop as a car goes airborne at the very top of a hill.
Fine for a roller coaster developed by experienced engineers, but not something you want your newly-licensed teenagers to do in their brand new cars.
Called “hill jumping,” or “yumping,” it involves [...]
The million dollar question for this story is – How do you hit a pedestrian with your car and drag him for miles without knowing about it?
This is exactly what happened on the evening of Monday, February 22, 2010, when 39-year-old Carroll Henry Humphries of Manassas Park was trying to walk across Centreville Road (Va. [...]
According to a recent University of California at San Diego study, more and more fatal car accidents in the United States are caused by young women driving while intoxicated.
According to colloquial wisdom, young male drivers are most prone to drink and drive in the US. Dr. Virginia W. Tsai and her colleagues decided to [...]
We all think we know what to do when pulled over, but everyone panics just a little. Here are four things to keep in mind when you’re pulled over in Virginia.
