In an effort to promote highway safety, the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety are asking the Maryland General Assembly to increase the penalties for “super-drunk” drivers—drivers with a BAC level over twice the legal limit. The national organization says Maryland is one of sixteen states that it has marked…
Metro Networks, the largest traffic gathering and reporting operation in America, recently released its list “The Top Ten Worst Traffic Incidents of 2006.” An accident involving two tractor-trailers colliding on I-95 North in Massaponax, VA put the Washington D.C. area in the number 10 spot. The trucks ended up catching…
U.S. Secretary of Transportation Mary E. Peters says that Americans need to take greater precautions on the road to increase safety and save more lives. According to the latest information from the National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS), Secretary Peters said that seat belt use in the U.S. is down…
U.S. Park Police say that on the morning of Thursday, December 28, two people died near Route 197 in the Laurel, Maryland area after a Chevy going south crossed into the northbound lanes and struck a white Infinty. The driver of the Chevy and the driver of the Infinity died…
Every year, in the United States, National Drunk and Drugged Driving And Prevention Month reminds people of the dangers of drunk driving. According to USA Today, over 1.5 million people were arrested in the U.S. in 2005 for drunk driving. At least that many people are believed to have driven…
With all the holiday parties that take place at the end of the year, drunk driving incidents tend to occur more frequently—which can be especially dangerous if you live in one of the 15 U.S. states where at least 41% of all traffic fatalities can be attributed to drunk driving.…
Two people were treated at Christiana Hospital last Friday night after being injured in a car crash on Del. 301 in the vicinity of Strawberry Lane near the Maryland line. According to Maryland State Police, the car collision occurred after a 2000 Ford Taurus pulled out of a service station…
A Towson, Maryland district court judge has reduced the bail of the woman charged in the hit-and-run dragging death of three-year-old Elijah Cozart in Baltimore County to $250,000. Cozart’s grandmother had been pushing him in a stroller across Goucher Boulevard when a 1999 Dodge Ram pickup truck, driven by Lazara…
Police in Maryland say that the 25-year-old driver whose vehicle crashed right into the back of a Toyota Corolla, killing two people on Thanksgiving night, was driving under the influence with a blood alcohol level that was four times over the legal limit. The blood alcohol test was given to…
A number of Calvert County organizations have teamed together to bring Southern Maryland young drivers the Drive 2 Survive training program. The Drive 2 Survive course will focus on giving teen drivers the “real world skills” to deal with unexpected situations they might experience on the road. The National Highway…