The law is the law - or so the judge will tell you when your day in traffic court arrives. But some traffic laws could stand to be bent a little in the interests of common sense. For example: Reds in the middle of the night with no traffic around for miles. We sit there, often not-so-patiently, as ...
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Think your morning commute to work is rough? You'll be thankful it's merely a crawl through traffic after watching this video of brazen thieves, who have been attacking motorists stuck in congestion. ...
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Read & Discuss »They have nicknames: "Hillside Strangler," "Mixing Bowl," "Spaghetti Junction" and "Orange Crush."They drive commuters crazy. They stall commerce. They waste fuel. And fixing them? Nothing doing. When you're talking about America's worst traffic traps -- the highway bottlenecks that cause the most ...
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Update those podcasts and start bringing a thermos of coffee on your way to work because Americans are looking at longer and longer commutes. According to the 2010 Urban Mobility Report published by the Texas Transportation Institute at Texas A&M University, traffic congestion is on the rise ...
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Read & Discuss »License and registration? You may have heard that phrase more than once in your life, and chances are you simply reached into the glove box and produced the necessary documents for a highway patrol or police officer standing next to your car. But what happens if you can't give proof of license or ...
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Read & Discuss »NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A long weekend is a great time to take your family on a road trip. Unfortunately, it's also a great time for everyone else to take their family on a road trip and there are only so many roads to go around.About 35 million people will travel by car on busy weekends, such as ...
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Claire Baker delivered a baby boy on the front seat of her car during heavy traffic is Sydney, Australia. ...
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The nation's commuters are adapting to increasing traffic congestion by building delays into their schedules, but at a cost of $121 billion in wasted time and fuel, according to an annual study of national driving patterns released Tuesday. ...
CATEGORIES: Fuel Efficiency, Gas Prices, Traffic
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Traffic fatalities in 2011 dropped to their lowest level since 1949, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said Monday, but showed a disturbing trend for environmentalists: As Americans rely on more green transportation (namely, bikes), there are more fatal crashes happening between ...
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OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) -- Josh Sutinen isn't old enough to vote and only got his driver's license last month, but he's already among the leaders in a growing national backlash against cameras that issue traffic tickets. ...
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Read & Discuss »Nobody likes paying for tickets. But if you're a driver, they're a fact of life -- especially at the end of the month or around the holidays when cops scramble to fill their quotas. The odds are that as a motorist you're going to have a run-in with the law.While we don't condone unsafe driving, we ...
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The number of traffic fatalities in the United States unexpectedly soared during the first three months of 2012, according to recently released data. ...
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In three years, the number of deaths caused by guns in America is expected to exceed the number of traffic fatalities for the first time in modern U.S. history. ...
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A routine traffic stop for tailgating along Interstate 40 led to the arrest of 13 suspected illegal immigrants. ...
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Houston traffic reporter Jennifer Reyna missed an accident happening on the screen behind her as she was telling local residents the road was starting to clear up. ...
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An investigation by WWLTV in New Orleans found that several traffic court judges and clerks were using illegal license plates and lights on their taxpayer funded cars in what seems to be a blatant abuse of power. ...
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Days of heavy snowed shut down a stretch of the M10 highway between Moscow and St. Petersburg Russia, causing a traffic jam that stretched 125 miles on Sunday, according to CNN. ...
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A main traffic artery in the metropolitan Atlanta area, the Georgia 400, has been plagued with congestion for years. Hoping to ease the commutes of thousands of area residents, officials decided to open the southbound emergency shoulder to cars during the morning rush hour. During the first morning ...
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According to preliminary information released by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), the number of fatalities on American roads is declining. The data collected and analyzed by the NHTSA indicated several positive aspects from 2009: A decline in highway deaths of 8.9% from ...
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Nobody likes paying for tickets. But if you're a driver, they're a fact of life -- especially at the end of the month or around the holidays when police scramble to fill their quotas. The odds are that as a motorist you're going to have a run-in with the law. ...
CATEGORIES: Speeding Tickets, Driving Laws
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