WASHINGTON -- Highway deaths declined again last year, reaching their lowest rate when compared to miles driven since such record-keeping began in 192...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 04.12.2012
Attention, parents of young children: You may be installing your child's car seat incorrectly. But that's not your fault. Carmakers are, in la...
Sharon Silke Carty | Posted 04.15.2012
There will be plenty of tears for Jeffrey Zaslow, a Wall Street Journal columnist of wide-renown and a friend. He was beloved by many. I worry that even though a huge community of people will grieve Zaslow, most will accept his death as a tragic accident, something completely unpreventable that could happen to any of us.
AP | Posted 03.30.2012
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- At least nine people died in a series of crashes apparently caused by heavy smoke and fog overnight on Interstate 75 in nort...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 01.13.2012
UPDATE: A report by the Orlando Sentinel says authorities believe Cameron got in the truck, but had not fully closed the door before Malecki began to...
Posted 01.03.2012
A snowstorm caused a 41-car pileup on a Kentucky highway Monday that sent six people with injuries to hospitals. Cars were sliding on the slippery...
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.05.2012
After reportedly throwing a temper tantrum on her way to school by sitting down in the middle of the street, a SUV ran over a little girl in eastern C...
The Huffington Post | Posted 01.04.2012
WASHINGTON -- A speeding SUV smashed a line of cars on a Columbia Heights street in the wee hours of Friday morning and the Metropolitan Police Depart...
Crystal Lake, IL Patch | Crystal Lake, IL Patch | Posted 08.31.2011
A 20-year-old Hoffman Estates man is in critical condition after falling from a moving car. Police responded to the Wal-Mart parking lot at approxi...
Pat LaMarche | Posted 08.27.2011
Far more women in the United States are victims of domestic violence than are injured in car accidents each year. In fact, the two aren't even close -- battering outstrips crashes roughly two to one.
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Posted 05.25.2011
MANHATTAN -- A recent Manhattan College grad is in a coma after being run over by taxi driver, who allegedly refused to take him and his friends to th...
Gimundo | Posted 05.25.2011
Normally, if someone hits your car, you wouldn't call him a hero. But in Bill Pace's case, Duane Innes' decision to put his own car in Pace's path lik...
AP | MIKE STOBBE | Posted 11.17.2011
ATLANTA — Far fewer people are dying in car crashes with teens at the wheel, but it's not because teenagers are driving more cautiously. Experts...
Dave Pell | Posted 05.25.2011
Dr. Frank Ryan paid the ultimate price for the mixing of social media and driving, but he is certainly not alone in that behavior.
The Expired Meter | Posted 05.25.2011
Something just isn't adding up. At least that's what Professor Rajiv Shah's research seems to show. Prof. Shah's analysis of Chicago's red light...
Posted 05.25.2011
We didn't even beat New Jersey. According to a new survey, New Yorkers are the worst drivers in the country. The Garden State is second to last, and...
Posted 05.25.2011
Red-light cameras certainly aren't the most popular invention. But in Chicago, it's the short yellow lights at many intersections that make the camera...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
AP MADISON, Wis. — Video taken from inside a city bus shows a Wisconsin state lawmaker running a red light and smashing into a bicyclist. Rep. ...
Ramon Resa, MD | Posted 11.17.2011
Parents, always make sure your children wear their seat belts! Families, take accountability.
Treehugger | Lloyd Alter | Posted 05.25.2011
Whenever we write about bike/car "interactions" we get a lot of complaints that cyclists bring much of this upon themselves by blowing through red lig...
The Post Chronicle | Posted 05.25.2011
A New York man trying to help save another man has died in a bridge fall. According to New York police, a 44-year-old man by the name of Kevin Ryan w...
Anne Dunev | Posted 05.25.2011
Most decent people cannot conceive that anyone would profit from knowingly harming others. That is the flaw in capitalism. And that is one reason that evil can exist.
Jerry Zezima | Posted 11.17.2011
If my wife and I wanted to have an impact on the people around us, we would teach a crash course in driver's education.
AP | MARK WILLIAMS | Posted 05.25.2011
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Rising prices at the gas pump appear to be having at least one positive effect: Traffic deaths around the country are plummetin...
AP | JOAN LOWY | Posted 05.07.2012