Topics: Driving & Motor Vehicles - 194 results

For police to legally search your car, a number of circumstances must be met. Because it is mobile and comparatively easy to dispose of, a car has fewer protections against search than a home. Your permission or a valid reason is needed. A warrant is rarely needed.   Consent Might Be Necessary If you are stopped for a routine traffic offense (not an arrest), the police officer might ask you for permission to search your car. You do not need …

Two friends who were thrown out of a bar for being drunk and then drove separate cars that crushed a construction worker were ordered to pay $5 million to the victim’s two children. The drivers who caused the freak accident, Jeffrey Dupree and Tracie Nininger, were drunk when they were told to leave a restaurant in downtown Roanoke, Va. They got into separate vehicles, a Hummer H3 and a Chevy Avalanche. As they both drove past a construction site where …

MC Hammer was arrested and booked on charges of “suspicion of resisting arrest” and “obstruction of an officer in performing his duties” after a run-in with a police officer in the parking lot of a shopping mall in a largely white suburb of northern California. The encounter apparently started because the car he was driving, which he does not own, had an expired registration. After giving the officer his license, the confrontation turned sour. Something tells me his driver’s license …

A Dallas strip club has been blamed for a fatal drunk driving accident that killed a young woman in March 2011. A jury awarded the woman’s family $10 million. After a night at the Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen’s Club, Eric Brent Crutchfield left the club around 2 a.m. heavily intoxicated, jumped into his illegally souped-up Ford truck and ran over 23-year-old Kasey McKenzie, who was walking through the parking lot. Her parents, Gary and Karen, brought a wrongful death civil suit …

Former baseball All-Star Mark Grace is now a guest of Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Grace started a four-month stint in Sheriff Joe’s Tent City this weekend after being convicted last year for a second DUI in the state. It’s unclear if Grace will be compelled to wear the sheriff’s famous pink underpants. Grace played first base for 16 years for the Chicago Cubs and Arizona Diamondbacks, and had been a broadcaster for the Diamondbacks until his most recent arrest. He …