Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
New Jersey Awards Cash to Combat Drunken Driving
Dec 5 2014 // New Jersey’s Highway Traffic Safety Division is giving more than $1.2 million to 165 police departments to combat drunken driving during the holiday season. The “Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over” campaign...
Tennessee Remembers Impaired Driving Crash Victims
Dec 4 2014 // Law enforcement and state officials recently took time to remember victims of impaired driving crashes in Tennessee. According to state officials, Tennessee lost an estimated 349 lives in impaired driving crashes last...
Distracted Driver Blamed For Louisiana Lake Wreck
Dec 3 2014 // Three people jumped into a Baton Rouge, La. lake after watching a vehicle get rear-ended and careen into the water. WBRZ-TV reported the St. George Fire Department said there was only one person in the vehicle, the driver,...
Global Car Insurers Offer Discounts – If They Can Monitor Driving Data
Dec 2 2014 // Insurance companies around the world are promising lower rates on car coverage. The catch is they want to install the equivalent of an airplane’s black box to track how and where you drive. Smartphone applications...
California Insurance Department Ready to Review TNC Policies
Dec 1 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said last month his department is ready to accept insurance company filings to create new commercial coverage or endorsements to personal auto insurance policies that will...
Supreme Court to Hear UPS Driver’s Pregnancy Bias Claim
Nov 30 2014 // Peggy Young only has to look at her younger daughter to be reminded how long she has fought United Parcel Service over its treatment of pregnant employees, and why. Young was pregnant with Triniti, who’s now 7 years...
Draft Report: Taxis to Be Outnumbered by Rideshare Drivers in Virginia
Nov 20 2014 // A draft state report predicts taxis will be outnumbered by ride-sharing drivers after Virginia begins regulating the industry. The report estimates that 5,900 personal vehicles would be registered under a ride-sharing...
Utah Woman Wears Colander For Driver’s License Photo
Nov 19 2014 // A Utah woman says she encountered only brief resistance when she recently had her driver’s license photo taken while wearing a colander on her head as a religious statement. Asia Lemmon, whose legal name appears on...
Truck Driver in Tracy Morgan Crash Asks to Delay Lawsuit
Nov 17 2014 // The truck driver charged in a New Jersey highway crash that injured comedian-actor Tracy Morgan and killed another man filed a request on Nov. 14 to delay a federal lawsuit while his criminal case proceeds in state...
Large Agencies More Optimistic About Future Growth: Study
Nov 17 2014 // Optimism over the future growth potential of independent agencies ties closely to the size of the independent agency, with larger agencies feeling more optimistic about future growth than their smaller counterparts,...
California Insurance Department Ready to Review TNC Policies
Nov 13 2014 // California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones said today his department is ready to accept insurance company filings to create new commercial coverage or endorsements to personal auto insurance policies that will provide...
Report: Wisconsin Judges Lenient in Sentencing Drunk Drivers
Nov 13 2014 // A Gannett Wisconsin Media review has found some chronic drunken drivers in Wisconsin spend little time behind bars on felony charges due to lenient sentencing. News-Herald Media reports there have been at least a dozen...
Experts See Gradual Transition to Accident-Free Driving
Nov 12 2014 // As millions of cars are under recall for potentially lethal air bags, designers are trying to reduce the need for the device – using sensors, radar, cameras and lasers to prevent collisions in the first place. With...
Drunk Driver Crashes into Texas Police Cars, Barely Misses Officer
Nov 7 2014 // Galveston police have arrested a man who they say crashed into two police cars while driving drunk. KHOU-TV reports 66-year-old Raymond Oakley nearly struck a Galveston police officer who was working at the scene of an...
New Rules for New York Drivers Using Hand-Held Phones
Nov 3 2014 // New York state is imposing tougher penalties on motorists who use hand-held mobile phones while driving. As of Nov. 1, young and new drivers caught texting or using a cell phone without a hands-free device face a 120-day...
Study: N.J.’s Teen Driver Decals Show Sustained Link With Fewer Crashes
Nov 3 2014 // A new study has found that New Jersey’s Graduated Driver Licensing (GDL) decal provision is associated with a sustained two-year decline in crash rates among intermediate (i.e., probationary) teen drivers. The study,...
Family of Driver Killed in California Bus and FedEx Crash Sues
Nov 3 2014 // The family of the bus driver killed with nine others in a fiery collision with a FedEx truck in Northern California has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the company. The Sacramento Bee reported that the lawsuit seeks...
German Insurer Uses Phone App to Help Improve Young Driver Safety
Oct 30 2014 // Signal Iduna, a German insurance provider, has launched a new car insurance policy through ‘sijox’, its young customer brand. “AppDrive powered by TomTom” uses a smartphone app to provide feedback...
Uber Drivers Pass by Oregon City’s Taxi Regulations
Oct 29 2014 // Salem, Ore. urban planning administrator Glen Gross says Uber continues to operate outside taxi regulations, despite a warning letter from the city and negotiations with the ridesharing company. Gross says it will be up to...
Nevada Official Says 11 Drivers Cited so Far For Uber
Oct 28 2014 // Nevada drivers with the ridesharing company Uber are picking up passengers despite a judge’s order blocking the rides until at least until Nov. 7. Nevada Taxicab Authority spokeswoman Teri Williams told the Las Vegas...
