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Tesla is once again in the headlines after a dozing driver who was using the onboard “Autopilot” systems struck and killed a Japanese pedestrian. The man’s surviving family members have filed suit against the U.S. automaker. According to a recent article appearing on the Newsweek website,  the suit was filed on behalf of the family ...

Star Wars fans often admire the bold, sometimes rebellious nature of Han Solo, and he is most noted for his prowess in flying. It seems that even off set, Harrison Ford has a penchant for aviation. After misunderstanding instructions given to him by the air traffic control tower at a Southern California airport, actor Harrison ...

A recent report from the NHTSA offered sobering statistics for pedestrians and bicyclists on American roadways. Fatalities among drivers and passengers in vehicles fell slightly in 2018, but there was a spike in the number of pedestrian and bicyclist deaths. The state of California in particular is notorious for its deadly crashes, and it was ...

Very rarely does one come home to find a car crashed into their home, but such was what happened earlier this month. A single-vehicle crash over the weekend in a residential Rowland Heights neighborhood ended with a Toyota Corolla lodged into the side of a home on Saturday. NBC’s Los Angeles affiliate, KNBC, reports that ...

Rollover crashes are both frightening and dangerous, often resulting in severe injury or death. According to experts and accident investigators, there are two different types of rollover crashes. An un-tripped rollover crash can happen when a top-heavy vehicle such as a commercial truck, for example, overturns. A tripped rollover can be triggered when a vehicle ...

Oakland Police Department officers were locked in a two-hour standoff with two suspects after a single-vehicle crash earlier this week. CBS Local station KPIX in San Francisco reports that the incident happened in the 4000 block of Edwards Avenue near Highway 580 on Thursday, April 16th. According to a statement given by Officer Johanna Watson, ...

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), automakers recall almost one third or 22 million or more cars every year.  The most recent recall this year was issued by Ford Motor Company and involves some 268,000 cars sold and registered in 16 US States and Mexico.  The issue involves faulty door latches on ...

Recent data collected from the California Highway Patrol and analysts for NBC in Los Angeles indicate that the number of traffic crashes in Los Angeles, Riverside, Orange,  Ventura, and San Bernardino Counties dropped an estimated 73% over the past month. Officials are citing the Coronavirus and shelter in place orders being the root cause of ...

When traveling on foot, the freeway is not a safe place to be, even if there is an emergency. Because traffic is traveling at high speed and vehicles are often in close proximity to each other, walking or running on a freeway can end up in tragedy. This very situation appears to be what happened ...

A train engineer was arrested after he deliberately ran his train off the tracks in an effort to crash into the US Navy’s hospital ship (USNS) Mercy on Tuesday.   According to the report filed by ABC in Los Angeles reporter Eileen Frere, the USNS Mercy was docked in San Pedro at the Port of ...