Latest Personal Auto Headlines
All the headlines from our Personal Auto Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Va. Conservatives File Suit Against New Tax, Driving Fees Law
Aug 9 2007 // Virginia anti-tax conservatives this week filed the broadest legal challenge yet to the new transportation funding law, targeting not just steep fees for bad driving but the fiscal underpinning of the $1 billion-a-year...
Truck Driver Burned in N.Y. Steam Pipe Blast Sues Con Ed
Aug 9 2007 // A tow-truck driver and his passenger burned in last month’s massive steam-pipe explosion in New York City have filed lawsuits against Consolidated Edison, accusing the utility of misconduct. Gregory McCullough, 21,...
Fla. Woman Runs over Instructor During Driving Lesson
Aug 7 2007 // A man giving a 30-year-old Naples, Fla., woman a driving lesson had to be airlifted to a hospital after the woman accidentally ran over him, the Collier County Sheriff’s Office said. David Tanner, 51, was teaching...
Court challenge to Va.’s bad driver fees delayed
Aug 6 2007 // The first court challenge to prohibitive fees Virginia is imposing on bad and dangerous drivers was postponed in a Henrico County court late last month. Anthony Price, charged with his fifth violation for driving on a...
Court challenge to Va.’s bad driver fees delayed
Aug 6 2007 // The first court challenge to prohibitive fees Virginia is imposing on bad and dangerous drivers was postponed in a Henrico County court late last month. Anthony Price, charged with his fifth violation for driving on a...
Virginia Judge Throws Out Controversial Bad Driving Fees
Aug 2 2007 // A Virginia judge has put up a roadblock to the state’s sizable penalties for bad driving. In the first known court challenge to the fees, Henrico County General District Judge Archer L. Yeatts ruled that the new fees...
La. Couple Admits Staging Car Crashes
Jul 30 2007 // A New Orleans man and woman have admitted that, from 1997 through 2004, they collected at least $51,000 in insurance on fender-benders they caused on purpose. Elton Calloway, 36, and Rosalyn Bradley, 28, were ordered to...
First Court Challenge to Va.’s Hefty Bad Driver Fees Delayed
Jul 27 2007 // The first court challenge to prohibitive fees Virginia is imposing on bad and dangerous drivers was postponed in a Henrico County court Tuesday. Anthony Price, charged with his fifth violation for driving on a suspended...
R.I. drivers denied day to prove insurance
Jul 23 2007 // Siding with State Police who said it would create an “unnecessary and burdensome increase in paperwork,” Rhode Island Gov. Don Carcieri for the second year has vetoed a bill to give motorists who are ticketed...
Pa. therapist not liable for patient’s car crash
Jul 23 2007 // A psychiatrist cannot be sued for a car crash caused by a patient, a Pennsylvania appeals court ruled. The Superior Court ruling upholds a decision written by a Blair County judge dismissing the lawsuit filed by Matthew...
Virginians question bad driving penalties
Jul 23 2007 // The Virginia General Assembly may have to address the issue of punitive and recurring bad-driving fees, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine acknowledged after callers on a radio show recently pressed him about why out-of-state drivers...
INHALANTS NOT INCLUDED UNDER DRUNK DRIVING LAW, N.Y. HIGH COURT RULES
Jul 23 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled recently. The Legislature...
Editor’s Note: Driver’s seat
Jul 23 2007 // The last time — January 1977 — Massachusetts tried to introduce competitive rating into private passenger auto insurance, a Democrat, Michael Dukakis, was governor. The experiment lasted about seven months...
Inhalants not included under drunk driving law, N.Y. high court rules
Jul 23 2007 // A motorist accused of “huffing” stimulants from an aerosol can before getting into a deadly wreck cannot be charged with driving while intoxicated, New York’s highest court ruled recently. The Legislature...
Virginians question bad driving penalties
Jul 23 2007 // The Virginia General Assembly may have to address the issue of punitive and recurring bad-driving fees, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine acknowledged after callers on a radio show recently pressed him about why out-of-state drivers...
Teen drivers talk, text too much while on the road
Jul 23 2007 // An alarming number of teen drivers are engaging in risky behavior, including sending and reading text messages, and talking on their cell phones while driving, according to research by AAA and Seventeen magazine. The...
Operation Firecracker Campaign Targeted Drunk Drivers in N.C.
Jul 13 2007 // North Carolina state and local law enforcement officers cited 2,129 motorists for driving while impaired during the “Booze It & Lose It: Operation Firecracker” campaign that ran June 28-July 8, according...
Driver Cries Foul as New Maine Law Yanks His Driver’s License
Jul 10 2007 // A 23-year-old Maine motorist who lost his license for three years under a little-publicized provision of Tina’s Law is crying foul. Joe P. Dehetre of Turner has a long and checkered driving record that includes 10...
Poll: Washington Driver Speed Connected to Household Income
Jul 2 2007 // Washington drivers who earn a household income of more than $75,000 are more likely than their counterparts to speed and talk on a cell phone, according to data from a poll conducted by PEMCO Insurance...
Virginians Upset Over Steep Penalties for State’s Repeat Bad Drivers
Jul 2 2007 // The Virginia General Assembly may have to address the issue of punitive and recurring bad-driving fees imposed solely on Virginians, Gov. Timothy M. Kaine told a statewide radio audience last week. For the second time in...
