Heritage number plates — the first plates issued in each Australian state and territory — are a highly coveted collector’s item, so it’s no surprise that the first nine, marked with just a single digit, are in the highest demand. Now, NSW plate no.1 is about to be sold to the highest bidder for more … Read more
Q. Hello Mr. Honk Man: I just drove back from Santa Barbara and did an unofficial study on tinted windows. I thought it was illegal to have your front side windows tinted dark, so the driver cannot be seen. I would think the California Highway Patrol would hate that, given the times we’re in. My study … Read more
Photo: Theodore Parisienne for NY Daily News (Getty Images) Since 2020, the number of road deaths in the United States has been rising at a truly staggering rate. There isn’t a singular cause behind this drastic shift. Instances of drunk driving and speeding are both up. Seatbelt use is down. But why? The New York … Read more
Joe Duran first saw the strange new license plate on his Arvada neighbor’s car and thought it was fake. Though Colorado has a sizable collection of specialty license plates — as alternatives to its standard green-sky, white-mountains design — Duran had never seen this one before: black plate, white letters. His first sighting was in … Read more
Thousands of wild horses near Lake Tahoe are becoming increasingly hazardous to drivers in Nevada — but residents in the state have no legal means to control the population on their own, according to a report. The Virginia Range — a 40-mile span of the easternmost part of the northern Sierra Nevada Mountains from Carson … Read more
Chris Miller biked to work every day from his home in Denver’s Speer neighborhood for six months, passing through a new traffic circle along the way. It’s one of dozens of tight rotary intersections that Denver has installed across the city this year, forcing vehicle traffic to go around center circles. Miller, 39, said the … Read more
A New South Wales P-plater has lost a lengthy legal battle over using her phone as a GPS map while driving. On May 20 2022 at 1.12am, Chiqui Eseque was pulled over when a police officer noticed her driving without her headlights on. However, when the police officer approached the car, Ms Eseque’s mobile phone … Read more
President Joesph Biden wrapped up his weekend with a bang after a car crashed into a parked SUV part of his presidential motorcade as he was visiting a campaign office in Wilmington, Delaware Sunday night. Car crashes into parked SUV near President Biden’s motorcade in Delaware The crash was particularly tense for Secret Service agents, … Read more
Deaths on WA’s regional roads have fallen to their lowest levels in a decade, drawing equal with fatalities on Perth roads this year, in a trend authorities have called “unusual”. It comes amid revelations a big portion of WA drivers think driving tired is OK. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial … Read more
The US government took the first step Tuesday toward requiring new cars to have technology that checks whether the driver is drunk. At an event in Washington, DC, officials with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the nation’s top road safety regulator, said the technology could help prevent thousands of annual road deaths involving alcohol. … Read more
