Archive for the ‘Law Enforcement’ Category

Car Stripers Take Everything From Inside Parked Cars

Friday, November 21st, 2008

Leaving stuff inside your car (even when it's locked) is an invitation to have it stolen. You've heard this before and it's still true, as recent experience in Salt Lake City shows. Car prowls are on the rise.

Female Robber In Texas Targets Elderly Women

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008

It's depressing enough that anyone would think of stealing money from ladies in their 90s, but it's extra sad to hear that it's a younger woman doing it through force and intimidation.

Automatic Crash Response Sends Help To 100,000 Crashes

Tuesday, November 18th, 2008

GM's OnStar system has sent emergency service personnel to the precise location of over 100,000 crashes in the last 12 years, often when the vehicle's occupants were unable to call themselves or to places where there was no cell service. For the serious safety seeker, OnStar remains the creme de ...

Walking To Car, Woman Victim Of Drive-By Purse Snatch

Friday, November 14th, 2008

A scary experience for a woman who thought she knew how to protect herself at all times.

Men Drive More Dangerously, Break More Laws: Study

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

When it comes to the big traffic tickets -- reckless driving, DUI, seatbelt violations, failure to yield and speeding -- men are much worse than women. On top of that, women are more likely to be found innocent of blame in a crash. 

Woman In Pink Nightie Foils Theft Of “Beloved” Car

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

Safety experts everywhere will tell you that what this Australian woman did was wrong, wrong, wrong and they'd be right, right, right, but it's still a "bonzer" story. 

Texas Woman Dies When Fence Drags Her From Jeep

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

More proof that there's more to vehicle safety than a flotilla of airbags and a five-star crash rating. 

Warranty Sales Calls Investigated By Several States

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

It's almost certainly not true that you have to pay more to extend your new car warranty even if someone calls you on the phone to tell you different. But that doesn't stop different firms from trying to get money from you, or thousands of people from falling for it.

Elderly Driving Deaths Reduced By New Law, But Why?

Thursday, November 13th, 2008

A Florida law requiring vision tests of people over 80 has reduced the highway fatality rate for that age group, but no one seems to understand why or if it will work in other jurisdictions.

Your IQ Should Determine How Fast You Can Drive

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

The whacko auto writer from TV's Top Gear and the Times of London is back with yet another completely ridiculous idea that's redeemed by being funny.

Man Hides Under Car Before Daylight Rape Of Woman

Friday, November 7th, 2008

The rapist reached out from underneath the car to grab the women, pulled her to the ground and raped her -- in a large, well-used parking lot in broad daylight.

Grand Theft Auto Game Blamed In Attacks On Women

Friday, November 7th, 2008

At least in part, a man's time spent playing Grand Theft Auto is held to be responsible for him attacking women on the street. The drugs may also have had something to do with it, but authorities in the UK believe the game was key.

Police Getting Tougher With First-Time Offenders

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Partly because it's the right thing to do and partly because it's a good way of increasing revenues for the local coffers, police forces across America are taking a harder line with first-time speeders and the like, with penalties (try $1,000 plus jail time) that can really hurt. And apparently ...

Man Charged In Car Crash Drowning Of His Young Sister

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

This is one of those stories that should remind us that you're often in greater danger when you're with your family and friends than you are when you're with strangers.

Woman Jailed For Killing Royal Couple In Car Crash

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Two years after killing a prince and princess of the royal family of Tonga in a car crash, a 20-year-old woman from Redwood, California, will serve two years in jail.

U.S. Working On Systems To Let Cars Communicate

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Only two things will bring about significant decreases in highway fatalities -- cars that don't run unless the seatbelts are engaged, and cars that talk to each other. Naturally, there's no one giving any serious thought to the easiest, cheapest and fastest answer (seatbelts), but lots of people are ready ...

System Lets Police Slow Down And Stop Stolen Cars

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

By Susan Winlaw: GM and its OnStar safety and security network recently debuted a service in that allows the police to slow down a stolen car so they can recover it and capture the people who took it.

Cars Not A Top Choice For Vengeful Women In Films

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

Notwithstanding Kathy Bates' famous use of a car to exact a little payback in Fried Green Tomatoes, women looking for some serious revenge generally favor other weapons. This list (with accompanying YouTube highlights) lists some of the more satisfying girls-get-even movies of all time.

Pregnant Woman Centre Of Shoving-Shouting Match

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

One of them was pregnant, which makes it all a bunch more unpleasant, and there were stomach punches and videotaping and arrests were made. And it was all over a parking space. 

Driver Who Killed Two Men Murdered By Their Friends

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Even a jail term for the driver responsible for the deaths of two men wasn't enough for a bunch of their friends, who have now been arrested themselves.

How Politics On Cell Phones Put Lives In Danger

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

A long, detailed and depressing overview of how political interference kept the feds from taking action on banning cell phone use in cars, from Mother Jones.

Female Zamboni Driver Ticketed For Driving Drunk

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

Now this is the kind of thing hockey fans want to see on YouTube. For non-hockey fans, a Zamboni is the garage-sized machine that rolls around the ice between the periods of a hockey game resurfacing the ice. So when the machine at a rink near the Detroit-Windsor border starting ...

How Carrying A Gun Can Help You After A Car Crash

Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

There's a mistake in this blog that makes you think the whole story might be a total fabrication, but it still imparts a message that will speak to a lot of women.

One Mother’s Experience With A Teenage Girl Driving

Monday, October 27th, 2008

Useful advice for parents, particularly with regard to creating a driving contract for your teens to sign.

Nine iPhone Apps For Your Car Have Various Uses

Monday, October 27th, 2008

It's hard to imagine that anyone with a car and an iPhone couldn't use at least one of these software systems.

Unbelted Cheerleaders And Unborn Baby Die In Crash

Sunday, October 26th, 2008

Sure the crash had a lot to do with the foggy and wet conditions, but the Michigan teenagers and the baby probably died in the two-car crash because lots of people weren't wearing their seatbelts. 

Saudi Vice Cops Told To Stop Chasing Cars

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

In pursuit of cars whose "inmates" are involved in "foul play," the field workers of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue And Prevention of Vice in Saudi Arabia have caused various crashes and much consternation. This is especially interesting when you see their definition of those moral violations.

New Fuel Rules Threaten NY’s Big Black Limo Fleet

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

The favorite transportation of many real world Gossip Girls and their ultra-rich parents may soon depart the streets of Manhattan in an effort to improve the environment with higher-mileage cars.

Motorcycles Aren’t Cheaper When Burial Costs Included

Friday, October 24th, 2008

While the writer of this piece is not known for his aversion to exaggeration, he is known for making hard points in an extremely entertaining fashion. Here he takes a look at the idea of people switching from cars to motorcycles in an attempt to save money on gas.

Drive-by Groper Gets Three Years Of Hard Labor

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

In Egypt, 98 percent of foreign female visitors are faced with sexual harassment of some kind, and for Egyptian women it's 83 percent. So the young woman who went to great lengths to get the guy who groped her on the streets of Cairo charged did a remarkable thing, and ...

OnStar Helps Police Track Man Who Injured Deputy

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

Some things never change, but other things do, which is why the kind of reckless person who doesn't mind putting others at risk is now being caught by ever-evolving technology. 

Your Money, Your Life, Or Your Seatbelt

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008

A truly exhaustive examination of why about 40 million Americans don't wear seatbelts and why they should. It probably won't change many minds, but you can't leave them any chance to say that no one told them.

Safety Tips For Drivers When They’re Near School Bus

Monday, October 20th, 2008

The situation with children getting off a school bus is fraught with possibilities for disaster, so GMAC Insurance offers some advice for avoiding them.

Man Jailed For “Lunatic” Motorcycle Stunts On YouTube

Monday, October 20th, 2008

It's never really been smart to brag about how you did something stupid and/or broke the law, but this British guy may have made that extra clear for the YouTube generation.

Parents Reject Teen Driver’s Apology For Killing Daughter

Sunday, October 19th, 2008

The full affects of reckless driving while under the influence of alcohol were on brutal display in a upstate New York courtroom recently, when a young man faced a family that didn't believe he had any remorse for killing their daughter. They also blamed his parents, who are also facing ...