A man from the Smoky Mountains was arrested earlier this week when he drove up to a Washington DC police officer at 2:30am with a truck stocked with weapons and then asked, “Where’s the White House?” “Did a terrorist just ask me for directions?” – that officer’s thoughts, presumably Image: Tom Lohdan When the man,…
Image: Scott E A car’s airbag is an extremely important piece of safety equipment. It is standard in every mainstream car produced today, and has been for decades. That is for a good reason. Here’s why you never, ever tamper with your car’s airbag system: turning it off or, say, replacing the car’s airbags with…
We reported last year about how pedestrian-car collisions have been sharply rising—the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that fatal pedestrian crashes in 2016 had jumped 9% over the previous year. With that in mind, there is a way to try to mitigate the effects of getting hit by a car (at least at lower…
One of the benefits of owning a Vauxhall with Vauxhall OnStar? In the event that your ride gets stolen, its GPS locator might be the very thing that helps you get it back quickly and safely. A Glasgow man by the name of James Watson was carjacked outside of his place of employment, and in…
A man in Colorado recently purchased a Challenger SRT Hellcat, but, as it turns out, he was not quite up to the challenge. In the first reported Challenger SRT Hellcat crash since the model hit dealerships (which, you know, wasn’t that long ago), Lance Utley of Winter Park, Colorado, ran his brand spankin’ new car…
FCA US employees and their immediate families will now have the option of a no-cost, no-debt college education FCA US is looking to enrich the future—and it has found the perfect way to do just that. The Italian-American carmaker recently rolled out its new Degrees@Work program nationwide, along with the new Degrees@Work Family program. These…
Hiding in plain sight in Westwood, Massachusetts, a predator lurks. It stalks the area around East Street. Experts have noted that it stands at 10 and a half feet tall, only seems to eat a few times per year, and struck, with devastating effect, on August 20th. Avoid Other Predators: Summer Safety Advice The police…
The Dodge Charger Pursuit Experience will give police officers the chance to see what the Charger Pursuit is like for a police car It’s nice to put a vehicle through its paces before your purchase it—especially when that vehicle happens to be a police car. Fiat Chrysler understands this, which is why FCA Fleet Operations,…
Imagine a 1970 Dodge Charger like this with a 700-horsepower engine from the 2015 Charger model How do you make a 1970 Dodge Charger even better? Merge it with the 2015 Charger, of course—and then sell it to raise money for a charity. This is exactly what one Canadian native is doing. After coming to…
Photo: Ohio Department of Transportation A gasoline tanker was involved in a head-on crash with a car going the wrong way on south-bound I-75 in Dayton on Sunday, leading to a fiery explosion and a large plume of black smoke. The video below is courtesy of WHIO. At around 4:45pm, police began receiving reports of…
Photo Courtesy: Linda Tanner This is not a great summer to be a car owner in bear country. In June, a man in British Columbia woke up to a trashed Lexus interior thanks to a member of the Ursidae family. This month, a bear in Jefferson County, Colorado decided it wanted to chill out in…
“Everywhere you look, everywhere you go, there’s a heart (there’s a heart), a hand to hold ontoooooo…” Everyone loves a good dose of nostalgia to take them back to the “good ‘ole days,” even if that means going way, way back in time. September 22nd marks the 30th anniversary of the classic family show Full House….
Who doesn’t wish they drove the Gadgetmobile? Photo: DIC Entertainment Inspector Gadget was a wacky television show with fun characters, quotable lines, and–of course–cool gadgets. It’s not the best-written cartoon of its time, but it had the right amount of charm and humor to be a hit. Debuting in 1983 and running for 86 episodes, Inspector…
These tire thieves were wanted: tread or alive Photo: NBC New York Everyone can appreciate a nice new Mercedes-Benz. However, two thieves in Brooklyn appreciated it a little too much after they stole the tires off of a brand new Mercedes-Benz GLA250 SUV. According to NBC New York, Brooklyn residents Anthony Colon and Julian Soto…
BMW emergency vehicles: To Serve, Protect, and Be Fine as Hell It’s highly unlikely that many people have any particular interest in traveling in an emergency vehicle (that is, unless they are an emergency worker). Nobody thinks “gee, I’d really like to ride in an ambulance today, so what can I do to expedite that…
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