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Woman Delivers Baby In Car During Peak Traffic

Posted Apr 3rd 2012 by AOL Autos Staff

Claire Baker delivered a baby boy on the front seat of her car during heavy traffic is Sydney, Australia. ...

Traffic Laws to Watch

Posted Dec 14th 2005 by

By Eric Peters 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 ...

CATEGORIES: Automotive News, Driving, Driving Laws

Americas Worst Traffic Traps

Posted Nov 20th 2007 by Robert Malone

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 ...

CATEGORIES: Automotive News, Driving, Speeding Tickets, Driving Laws

Traffic Congestion on the Rise

Posted Jan 21st 2011 by Michael Zak | AOL Autos

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 ...

CATEGORIES: Automotive News, Driving

Some Traffic Tickets Are Reversible

Posted Sep 11th 2009 by Craig Howie | AOL Autos

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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Eight Traffic Ticket Tips

Posted Mar 26th 2012 by AOL Autos Staff

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. ...

Opening Emergency Shoulder To Traffic In Atlanta Leads To Confusion, One Arrest

Posted May 15th 2012 by AOL Autos Staff

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 ...

Traffic Headaches

Posted Sep 17th 2006 by Peter Valdes-Dapena

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 ...

CATEGORIES: Driving

Washington Teen Crusades Against Ticketing Traffic Cams

Posted Jun 24th 2011 by Mike Baker | Associated Press

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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Eight Traffic Ticket Tips

Posted Apr 26th 2007 by Michael Estrin

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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NHTSA Says Traffic Fatalities Decrease For Fourth Straight Year

Posted Mar 11th 2010 by Michael Zak | AOL Autos

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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Avoid Speeding Tickets And Traffic With Your Phone

Posted Sep 15th 2009 by Kevin Ransom, AOL Autos

Well, it was bound to happen. The high-tech arms race has escalated once again. No, we're not talking about military weaponry. We're talking about the tech-driven cat-and-mouse game between law-enforcement agencies and motorists when it comes to setting and avoiding speed traps. It all started, of ...

CATEGORIES: Automotive Technology, Car Gadgets, Speeding Tickets, Driving Laws

Ford Updates Sync Destinations With Voice Controls, Better Traffic Data

Posted Jan 19th 2012 by Damon Lavrinc | Autoblog

In the first iteration of Ford's Sync Destinations app, drivers were surprisingly unable to use the app via voice commands. In the next version, that will no longer be an obstacle. ...

CATEGORIES: Technology Of The Year

Videotape Your Next Traffic Stop: A Good Idea?

Posted Sep 28th 2010 by Rex Roy | AOL Autos

With the proliferation of video cameras in phones and MP3 players, capturing an event on video has never been easier. The tools are now pocket sized, creating a new wrinkle in how we're interacting with everything around us, including the police. While cops started arming themselves with ...

CATEGORIES: Automotive News, Driving Laws

Man Accused Of Stealing Police Cruiser During Traffic Stop Speaks Out

Posted Jan 30th 2012 by AOL Autos Staff

"The media made me look horrible, and I am not a horrible person," William Blankenship III said in a recent interview. "I am a family man ... with a full-time job, a house and a car." Earlier this month, Blankenship was handcuffed in the back of a police car and accused of drug possession -- a ...

Routine Traffic Stop Nets Long-Lost Stolen Ring

Posted Jul 26th 2011 by Associated Press

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - John Barresi's 1973 Big Eight championship ring had been missing for more than 17 years. ...

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Video: Lamborghini Gallardo Crashes During Routine Turn In Chicago Suburb

Posted May 17th 2012 by AOL Autos

Sitting behind a Lamborghini Gallardo at a traffic light in suburban Chicago, a passenger taking a video tape of the high-priced vehicle says, "He's going to be gone," when the traffic light changes. The Lamborghini wasn't gone. It was merely a goner. ...

CATEGORIES: Automotive News, Speeding Tickets, Driving Laws

Road Deaths A Global 'Epidemic' On Par With Diseases, Says New Report

Posted May 4th 2012 by AOL Autos Staff

Every six seconds, someone is killed or seriously injured in a traffic accident. Every day, 3,500 people are killed in car crashes. ...

CATEGORIES: Automotive News, Car Safety, Driving

Graphic Video: Man Gets Creamed By Car, Suffers Only Broken Leg

Posted May 8th 2012 by AOL Autos Staff

It's unclear why this man in Russia had stopped his car in the middle of the freeway and was standing amid the speeding traffic. But one thing is absolutely certain about the situation: He is beyond lucky to be alive. ...

Speeders Say Their Due Process Rights Were Violated

Posted Apr 6th 2012 by AOL Autos Staff

Six speeders in Charlottesville, Va. claim their due-process rights were violated because the city has not provided a copy of the traffic and engineering study that set the 35-mph speed limit. ...