Police are attempting to track down witnesses of a fatal car crash where an alleged drunk driver ran a red light and hit another car, killing its driver. Surveillance video from a nearby business shows a mid-1990s Volkswagen Jetta following a car driven by suspected drunk driver Viet Quoc Nguyen. Authorities have charged Nguyen, 25,… read more
Surveillance video from a motorcycle store has been released that shows the last moments of a young female motorcyclist’s life, just before an alleged drunk driver hit her. The 22-year-old Plantation college student had just won a coveted spot on the Miami Heat dance squad when she was killed. The video shows her stopping with… read more
Police in El Cerrito, California are urging football fans to designate a driver during Super Bowl weekend. The Bay Area city is likely to be filled with football fans cheering their team on, contributing to increased incidents of drunken driving. “While I encourage everyone to have fun…I implore you to do so in a safe… read more
An Ohio man has been charged with his tenth operation under the influence offense after he wrecked his car in a ditch last week. Ralph J. Gipple, 46, crashed his vehicle into a ditch on the Hicksville-Edgerton Road near Hicksville, Ohio. When the car came to rest, Gipple fled on foot. Police tracked him with… read more
A combined lawsuit against Andrew Schlichtemeier, the drunk driver who killed four Omaha-area motorcyclists in August 2010, has essentially been settled. Schlichtemeier offered the families of the motorcyclists the proceeds from the car insurance policies he carried at the time of the crash, and they accepted. On August 9, 2010, the four riders were returning… read more
A South Carolina deputy had to struggle to arrest an intoxicated man after he found him passed out in an SUV that appeared to have been in an accident. The Spartanburg County deputy said he came upon a stopped SUV on Dobson Road that looked as though it had been in a wreck. He approached… read more
A woman in Jackman, Maine hit a utility pole head-on after drifting across the road while checking her cell phone. Distracted driving has become a major issue in recent years as increasing numbers of people rely on cell phones for everything from phone calls to emails. The more communication options at our fingertips, the more… read more
Nevada’s traffic fatalities dropped last year to 243, a decrease that the Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) attributes at least in part to the launch of Zero Fatalities, a statewide initiative to reduce highway deaths by employing new safety strategies. After a peak of 432 fatalities in 2006, the number of deaths decreased each year… read more
The United States is not the only country attempting to get a handle on the problem of distracted driving. Canada is also cracking down on the dangerous habits of drivers, and one province, British Columbia, is reporting that new laws are saving lives and reducing traffic fatalities. Though most provinces have laws prohibiting or at… read more
Arizona was given a failing safety grade recently by a national highway safety group, with the state adopting less than a third of the laws the group considers basic to traffic safety. The only state to rank lower than Arizona in the ninth annual report from the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety was South… read more
