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Recession helps cut auto deaths

Car crash fatalities fell in 40 states in '08, driven partly by people driving less because of the recession and seat belt use reaching a record high of 83%. That's according to a survey by the Governors Highway Safety Association. Other reasons for the decline include high gas prices in the...
February 5th, 2009 | Law & Order | Read More

Visionary Vehicles sues China's Chery Auto

Entrepreneur Malcolm Bricklin's Visionary Vehicles has filed a lawsuit accusing China's Chery Automobile Co. of defrauding the company after the two formed a joint venture to import Chinese cars to the United States. In the lawsuit filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Detroit, Visionary Vehicles...
July 22nd, 2008 | Law & Order | Read More

Boris scraps £25 levy for most-polluting cars

London mayor Boris Johnson has withdrawn plans for a £25 per day congestion charge on the most polluting vehicles coming into the city, ending a legal battle against the levy by luxury carmaker Porsche. The proposal to raise the congestion charge for vehicles with the highest carbon dioxide emission...
July 8th, 2008 | Law & Order | Read More

German carmakers welcome modified emissions targets

German automakers could breathe easier Tuesday after Berlin and Paris agreed on a proposal that relaxes carbon dioxide emission targets for cars. The accord "is a clear improvement on a proposition by the European Commission," said Matthias Wissmann, head of the German automobile association VDA. He...
June 10th, 2008 | Law & Order | Read More

Bus using a GPS crashes into a bridge

The driver of the bus carrying the Garfield High School girls softball team that hit a brick and concrete footbridge was using a GPS navigation system that routed the tall bus under the 9-foot bridge, the charter company's president said Thursday. Steve Abegg, president of Journey Lines in Lynnwood,...
April 18th, 2008 | Law & Order | Read More

Tennessee Wildfire Started by Motorcycle Crash

A fire blazing in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was started by a motorcycle crash. National Park Service spokesman Bob Miller said the fire had grown to about 10 acres by Wednesday night and would expand further Thursday while firefighters worked to contain it. It began when a rider crashed...
April 18th, 2008 | Law & Order | Read More

Street-race crash kills 7 in crowd

A car plowed into a crowd that had gathered to watch a street race on a suburban road early Saturday, killing seven people and injuring at least four, police said. Witnesses said they had just watched two cars in the illegal street race speed past when a car without any lights on came up...
February 16th, 2008 | Law & Order | Read More

Senate OKs historic energy bill

Regulations that will fundamentally change the vehicles that Detroit's automakers build and sell were passed by the Senate Thursday night, by an 86-8 vote. The approval of the historic, national energy bill sets the strictest fuel efficiency regulations the auto industry has seen in decades....
December 13th, 2007 | Law & Order | Read More

Energy bill stymied in Senate

With the Senate's failure to end debate on the House energy bill Friday and send it to a vote, staff members will begin negotiating a version that could soften or eliminate many of the most controversial provisions. The House energy bill, approved 235-181 on Thursday, increases fuel...
December 9th, 2007 | Law & Order | Read More

Ten year ban for pulling a wheelie

STUNTING BIKERS in Miami may have gone just a step too far at the weekend, and their antics look set to bring in tough new laws that is likely to see their bike taken off them, their licences revoked for TEN years and a mandatory stay in prison. State representative Carlos Lopez-Cantera...
November 28th, 2007 | Law & Order | Read More
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