Driving Safety

Pennsylvania passed a new law prohibiting drivers from sending or reading text messages while behind the wheel last year. Now, almost exactly one year later, some are questioning whether the…

March 15, 2013

When police stopped and questioned a man who was driving the wrong way down a one-way street they quickly discovered two things: first, that the driver, Stephen F. Ballinger, was…

March 15, 2013

Not so long ago, foreign visitors to the state of Florida were required to obtain a special state issued driver’s license if they wanted…

March 13, 2013

We’ve all done at one time or another: grabbed a beer or two, fired up the tractor, and started cutting the grass. The next thing you know you’re mowing through…

March 13, 2013

Arizona does not allow anyone who is not a U.S. citizen to obtain a state driver’s license, but they do make their driving manual available in both English and Spanish.…

March 12, 2013

You might think police are only looking for drunk drivers during New Year’s Eve and after the Super Bowl, but you’d be wrong. Police are savvy drunk driver spotters–they know…

March 11, 2013

The state of Georgia was one of just a handful of states which bucked the national trend in teen driving deaths and saw a decline in those inexperienced drivers killed…

March 8, 2013

When driving analysts say New York driving is the ‘worst’ in the nation, they are not referring to the way people drive. They are talking about the act of driving…

March 8, 2013

A group of University of Arizona students have started an on-campus campaign to remind their fellow students of the dangers of texting while driving.…

March 6, 2013

You might think that an empty parking space, even if it’s marked by a “disabled parking only” sign, is fair game. You might only need to park there a moment;…

March 6, 2013