Topics: Driving & Motor Vehicles - 62 results

The legal limit for drivers’ blood alcohol content should drop to .05 from its current level of .08, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended this week. Lowering the limit at which a driver is subject to arrest “could reasonably be expected to have a broad deterrent effect, thereby reducing the risk of injuries and fatalities from crashes associated with impaired driving,” the NTSB asserts in its report. About 1.4 million people are arrested for driving under the influence each year. …

Cameras at traffic intersections photograph drivers who run red lights, making sure they are ticketed. Citizen activists say these cameras do not promote safety but are primarily for making money. The founder of the Red Light Camera Protest Group points out that the yellow light at one intersection in Fremont, Calif. was increased by a fraction of a second, and the number of violations dropped by over 50 percent. But the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety says its studies conclude …

  A camera at the intersection of Northgate and 27th Streets in Oakland, Calif. ambushes drivers running red lights and raises more than $3 million per year. For example, Ronald Pond received a $541 ticket because this camera caught him turning a right on red — at about 4:30 a.m. with no other traffic around. It’s a perfect example of “gotcha” government that prompts irate calls to eliminate the red light robots. Twenty-one states have red light cameras but nine …

Egg hunts were delayed yesterday in Southern California when the Easter Bunny was pulled over for riding a motorcycle without wearing a helmet. The giant rabbit was driving his bike, complete with sidecar, near San Diego when highway patrol officer Adam Griffiths pulled him over and delivered a lecture. “Griffiths told him it was a serious situation and that it wasn’t a joke,” a police spokesperson told a local news source. “He explained to him the safety ramifications of not …

A Hawaii man who stupidly posted a video on the Internet of himself drinking and driving is facing open container and other charges, though he has dodged DUI charges so far. Richard Godbehere Jr., 53, used a lighter to pop the cap on a Beck’s bottle in a video that he posted to LiveLeak.com, proclaiming, “This is celebration time!” The video is titled, “Let’s Go Driving & Drinking!” “I’m so happy to be drinking and driving,” Godbehere says in the …