While there are many reasons for a driver to be distracted including eating, drinking, using maps, talking to passengers. Perhaps one of the most obvious driving distractions of our time is the use of Smartphones. Whether it be emailing, texting, talking, or Pokemon Go, this one device alone gives drivers the temptation to avert…
Several Ohio residents were killed in a Floridatraffic accident just outside Panama City. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, five central Ohio residents were involved in a crash last weekend, in Bay County. The Florida Highway Patrol says around midnight on Saturday a vehicle carrying Panama City residents inside, was southbound on Pine Tree…
On Saturday a Quincy man was arrested and is facing much more than one charge for acrash that involved more than five vehicles, one being a john boat parked and on its trailer. Multiple departments were dispatched to Fifth and Chestnut including the Quincy Police Department, Quincy Fire Department, Adam’s County Sheriff’s office, and…
Your safety is put at risk daily by those obsessed with catching the next digital monster. This particular driver hit a tree instead of another driver and luckily suffered minor injuries. While this incident occurred in AuburnPokemon Go isn’t isolated to just that area; people across the world are on the search for the…
Anothercar crash on Meadows Ave. in East Peoria took a woman’s life on Wednesday. The coroner of Peoria announced Wednesday evening at OSF Saint Francis Medical Center that Norene McMahon, 48 of Washington, was deceased. The second driver has been hospitalized as a result, and their condition is not known at this time. An…
Engineers hope the day is soon approaching that trafficaccidents are reduced by self-driving cars. Tesla Motors has announced this month that it will upgrade its Autopilot semi-self-driving system. The upgrade will improve its accuracy in being able to deal with hazards and make its electric cars more dependent on radar, rather than on cameras….
Uber is taking part in efforts to reducetraffic accidents and has announced its partially self-driving car will now accept passengers as of this week. Uber says this is their first step in creating a fleet of autonomous vehicles. The critical test is underway that could someday be the standard for ride-sharing transportation. On Tuesday,…
A young California woman was killed last week in ahead-on crash in Ramona. According to the California Highway Patrol, the collision occurred on Vista Ramona Road and E Old Julian Highway at approximately 4:30 p.m. last Monday. Officials say the eastbound driver of a Ford F-250 drifted into the westbound lanes and smashed into…
ABC13 News reports that life flights and the shutdown of Katy Freeway are the results of an early morningaccident in Texas. Two vehicles involved in a crash sent one person to the hospital and one dead. Additional information to be released after further investigation. Detour from this route is required. The National Highway Traffic…
An Illinois man was sentenced to 26 years in prison for aDUI crash that killed two small children. The 41-year-old man was under the influence of PCP and opiates when he crashed his speeding car into a family’s vehicle in Chicago in 2012. A 5-year-old and a 10-month-old were tragically killed in the crash….