BLACKSBURG, Va. - Eight out of 10 crashes involve drivers who are
drowsy, chatting on a cell phone, applying makeup or otherwise
distracted from the road ahead, according to a government study
released Thursday that videotaped people behind the wheel....

the concord,ca police department gives people tickets that have 525lbs.
in a 1 ton pu truck and then at court they walk up to the judge and say
ALL CHARGES DROPPED. concord,ca police are fucken dirty cops.

I was exiting the southbound 405 freeway this morning from an off-ramp
with two left turn lanes, turning left onto a street with three lanes
in each direction. I was in the right hand left turn lane. When the
light turned green, I accelerated smartly and turned into the

It was a beautiful day yesterday (72 degrees and sunny) so I rode my
bike to work. Actually I rode it to the train station, took it on the
train with me, and rode from the destination station to my office.
It turned out to be a fascinating stroke of luck.

http://dynamic.cnn.com/apps/tp/video/tech/2006/04/12/hunter.crash.cam.cnn/video.
ws.asx
You should be able to view this if you have installed Windows Media
Player 9 series or have XP installed on your system.
It appears in most cases that people weren't really paying attention

Gee, I sure didn't see *this* coming a mile away:
http://tinyurl.com/syxxv
    or
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-hybrids10apr10,0,4636957.story?coll=la-h
ome-headlines

L.A. shouldn't be included in this discussion.  That includes OC/Inland
Empire/Ventura County...
What stretches of road have started experiencing congestion, or have
had congestion rates worsen significantly over the past couple of

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Tenpaku, Nagoya  Japan 468-0006

Serious warning to all drivers in the metro DC area, do not take 295
through DC from US-50 south unless you drive a truck or a car with lots
of ground clearance!    They have ground off the top layer of the road
surface and there's lots of manhole covers sticking up and I saw at

As gas edges towards 100$ per barrel, you may be wondering about your
next car purchase. 10 years ago it was cool to consider a big-a.s V8
or V10 engine. Now... it's rather ridiculous. My opinion is that a
strong weaning of oil and gas should begin now, rather than later. We

http://i2.tinypic.com/vdzpyv.jpg
Driven pretty aggressively, too!

Low-profile drive-on ramps: $149
6 quarts of Mobil-1 5W-30: $34
PF-46 filter: $6.99
Knowing that some minimum-wage high school kid didn't strip your oil

Hypotheticaly speaking.  What would happen if at 5am everyone in the
San Francisco Bay area drive ALL of their cars into San Francisco City
limits.
#1  How long would it take for the streets of San Fancisco to get