Framingham (Massachusetts): An uncle of President Barack Obama has been charged with drunk driving in Massachusetts and is being held by immigration officials. Onyango Obama was arrested last week in Framingham after police said he made a rolling stop and nearly caused a cruiser to strike his sport utility vehicle. Police said that when asked if he wanted to make a phone call, the 67-year-old Obama said, "I think I...
07:57 AM, Aug 30, 2011
London: Mobile phones, music, cosmetics, snacks and drinks are some of the things that distract drivers, putting at risk the lives of eight out of 10 motorists, a new survey says. An alarming 82 percent of drivers confess to having been badly distracted at some stage, the survey for price comparison website moneysupermarket.com found. Music is the single biggest cause and 61 percent admitted that they get distracted while changing...
12:04 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Chicago: Kids may be safest in cars when grandma or grandpa are driving instead of mom or dad, according to study results that even made the researchers do a double-take. "We were surprised to discover that the injury rate was considerably lower in crashes where grandparents were the drivers," said Dr. Fred Henretig, an emergency medicine specialist at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the study's lead author. Previous evidence indicates...
12:31 PM, Jul 19, 2011
London: Women drivers are accident prone even though they spend less time at the wheel than males. Researchers looked at 6.5 million car crashes and found a higher than expected number of accidents between two female drivers. They also discovered that women have a tough time negotiating crossroads, T-junctions and slip roads. The results are even more surprising given that men spend more time behind the wheel than women. On...
12:44 PM, Jul 09, 2011
A teenager was killed and three people were injured after a speeding car flipped over the divider. ...
09:15 PM, Apr 19, 2011
Mumbai: On Tuesday, Mumbai woke up to news of yet another deadly road accident at the city's Peddar Road area, where a speeding Honda City flipped over the divider. A 16-year-old girl, one of the car's four occupants, was killed. The speeding car went on to crash into three other parked vehicles. The victim Shifa Sheikh was out for an ice cream with her family, her 20-year-old sister Sania is...
08:36 PM, Apr 19, 2011
London: Women are generally lampooned for their driving skills, but a survey in Britain has found that men are worse drivers and twice as likely to have an accident as women since they get distracted while driving. According to the survey from Santander Car Insurance, only five percent of women have had a crash because they were not paying proper attention while driving. But more than one in ten -...
10:06 AM, Apr 19, 2011
Mumbai: The prosecution for the Bandra-Worli Sea Link accident on Monday could lose key evidence if doctors fail to ascertain whether the driver, Ranjeet Kamble, had consumed alcohol before driving. The matter assumes significance after people known to him alleged that he could have been drunk while driving. On Monday, Kamble, a resident of BDD Chawl, Worli, had rammed a Toyota carrying nine other people into a divider close to...
07:19 PM, Mar 23, 2011
London: A young British woman has failed her driving theory exam an astonishing 90 times, spending about 3,000 pounds before she even sits for the practical test, a media report said Thursday. The 26-year-old from London, who last appeared in her theory test in November 2010, set a British record by failing for the 90th time, the Daily Mail reported. The Driving Standards Agency revealed the figures after a Freedom...
07:10 PM, Mar 17, 2011
New York: How old is too old to drive? Two thirds of Americans surveyed in a Marist Poll said 65 is the age when drivers should have to retake their road test. Younger Americans are more in favor of the requirement, 84 percent below the age of 30 and 76 percent aged 30 to 44, while 62 percent of those aged between 45 and 59 agree, And almost half of...
03:48 PM, Mar 05, 2011
Hearing impaired Rajat Sachdeva took the driving test but was declared ineligible for a driving license. ...
03:06 PM, Feb 15, 2011
Waltham, Massachusetts: An alcohol-detection prototype that uses automatic sensors to instantly gauge a driver's fitness to be on the road has the potential to save thousands of lives, but could be as long as a decade away from everyday use in cars, federal officials and researchers said on Friday. US Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood visited QinetiQ North America, a Waltham, Massachusetts - based research and development facility, for the first...
11:44 AM, Jan 29, 2011
London: Driving for more than three hours without a break at night is like being drunk behind the steering. Researchers found that tiredness after a few hours has the same effect as being over the drink-driving limit. Even two hours of driving in the dark can affect performance so severely that it is the same as having a couple of drinks, the Journal of Sleep Research reports. It is estimated...
07:08 PM, Jan 20, 2011
London: Guess what scares a woman driver. It's not heavy traffic or bad weather, but having her husband on board, a survey has revealed. But, according to the survey, apparently most men are quite happy to be driven by their female partner. Only five per cent of men are sometimes not relaxed or never relax when their wife or girlfriend is behind the wheel. In fact, the survey by the...
12:27 PM, Jan 03, 2011
Authorities in Mumbai have given permission to party till 5 am in the morning. ...
09:26 PM, Dec 31, 2010
Cleveland: An Ohio drunken-driving suspect is blaming his arrest on Ozzy Osbourne. William Liston was arrested Christmas Eve in suburban Cleveland. WJW-TV says he told police officers, "Ozzy Osbourne and his music made me do it." Osbourne's hits as lead singer of heavy metal band Black Sabbath and as a solo artist include "Paranoid" and "Road to Nowhere." Liston is awaiting arraignment. He's to appear in court Tuesday on a...
12:14 PM, Dec 31, 2010
London: A driving instructor in Britain groped women learners after telling them it was "punishment" for motoring mistakes, a court has been told. Barry Morgan, 58, would turn the heating up in his car so that his women victims would remove their tops. Then he would insist on squeezing "their wobbly bits" if they made driving errors, according to The Sun. A former soldier in the Falklands War, Morgan reportedly...
03:47 PM, Dec 13, 2010
Two senior citizens share their stories with CNN-IBN about their fight for their right to drive. ...
06:53 PM, Oct 30, 2010
Berlin: German scientists have unveiled the latest in self-driving car technology - an autonomous vehicle named "MadeInGermany" (MIG), which passengers can even call for a lift. Computer scientist Raul Rojas and his team at Berlin's Free University (FU) have developed the experimental car which they hope will revolutionise the future of driving. Passengers can phone their MIG using an iPad or smartphone and the Global Positioning System integrated into these...
01:03 PM, Oct 15, 2010
Col Devinder Singh lost his son, daughter-in-law and grand daughter, who were killed in a reckless driving accident. ...
10:06 PM, Sep 21, 2010
