driving

  • Force not so strong in hit and running Obiwan Kenobi [Allegedly]

    Thirty-seven-year-old Obiwan Kenobi (real name) was arrested over the weekend on the suspicion that he was responsible for a hit and run crash that caused a four-car pileup in mid-March. Roseville (California) police Sergeant Jason Bosworth told News 10 the police version of events: The crash happened on March...
  • Oh My God I Hit My Dad With A Car

    21-year old Brittannie Wagner might never leave the house again without her glasses… or maybe she might if that smirk in her mugshot says more than her words did. Driving home from a night out with friends the Florida native hit a man walking down the street at 1a.m....
  • Driver swerves to avoid rabbit, lands in pool

    An Austrian woman found herself and her car smack dab in the middle of a pool after she swerved to miss the cute little bunny rabbit standing in the road. Wet and embarrassed, the 42 year old wasn’t hurt. However, firefighters are still amazed at the fact she managed...
  • Coming soon to your driveway; Laser Spark Plugs!

    For the last 100 years or so, the internal combustion engine has been following a simple design, a spark plug, designed to arc some high electrical current creates a spark, which ignites an air/fuel mixture and propels the piston back down the cylinder, generating the energy required to move...
  • Trucker uses overpass to clear snow off roof of his truck

    I live in Quebec, basically, we are north of almost everything American. Here, we know about snow, we have ice bridges that take you from one shore to the other over a frozen lake or river, we routinely get 6 inches of snow and it gets very cold. Just last...
  • Ironically costumed youth was over the limit

    The arrest of 19-year-old Matthew Nieveen for second-offense driving under the influence might have been unremarkable – were it not for his choice of Halloween costume. According to the police report, the young man was pulled over in a 1992 Ford F150 as he drove north on 33rd Street...
  • Thousands die texting and driving

    Here is a staggering statistic: in 2008 almost 6000 people died in cell phone-related accidents in the United States. Cell phone-related means that the people involved in the accidents were using their cell phones in some way while operating their vehicles. Whether they were text, calling, or just browsing...
  • Bus driver Kindles and drives

    A 40-year-old TriMet bus driver in Portland, Oregon is on administrative leave after a passenger filmed him reading a Kindle while he was driving. The passenger in question – who wishes to remain anonymous – decided to start filming when saw the driver, Lahcen Qouchbane, reach into his bag,...
  • Motorcyclist scores free BBQ, $800 fine

    When Michael Wiles spotted an old barbecue grill thrown out with the trash on the side of the road he should have just ridden by – after all, he was riding a motorcycle and they are not really built with transporting BBQs in mind. What he did was get...