Checkpoint & Fatal Crash With Suspended Driver’s License

Deputies will hold a sobriety and driver’s license checkpoint Saturday night in Encinitas. The checkpoint will be held at an undisclosed location in the city starting at 7:30 p.m. and ending at 2 a.m., according to the Sheriff’s Department. “Over the course of the past three years, over 1,000 people have been arrested for DUI in Encinitas and over 194 DUI collisions have occurred, which killed three and injured 68 of our friends, neighbors see more

REDWOOD CITY — A man whose driver’s license was suspended after being involved in repeated seizure-related car wrecks is charged with murder for a double-fatal crash in San Bruno that happened as he had another seizure, a prosecutor said. Rodney Corsiglia, 49, of San Bruno didn’t enter a plea Thursday when he appeared for the first time in court to face charges in connection with the July 28 deaths of cousins Usbaldo Gomez, 37, and Arnulfo Picazo, 39. The men had just left a baptism and were stopped at a red light at Sneath Lane and El Camino Real when they were rear-ended by Corsiglia, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said. Corsiglia allegedly lost control of his vehicle while having a seizure and was going 40-50 mph as he plowed into them. He was also see more

According to KentuckySports.com, Kentucky men’s basketball assistant Rod Strickland was arrested last week in Fayette County, Kentucky, when he was pulled over for failure to signal, and was found to be driving an unregistered vehicle with a suspended driver’s license. The 46-year old, 17-year NBA veteran, has had a number of auto-related run-ins with the law as of late, as he was pulled over for running a red flashing light while intoxicated in 2007, was arrested for a DUI in 2010, which resulted in the suspension of his license, and then had his license suspended again in 2011 for failure to maintain proof of insurance. Sporting News, however, has reported that Strickland’s license had in fact been reinstated prior to this latest arrest, but that the court. see more

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Vehicle Impounded With No Driver License

                                                                

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — A proposed ordinance could allow police officers to impound a vehicle if the driver has a suspended, revoked, expired or no driver’s license. The Montgomery Advertiser reports that the Montgomery City Council public safety committee voted 4-1, sending the ordinance to the full council. If another driver in the car has a license, that person would be allowed to drive the car and it wouldn’t be towed. City Councilman Glen Pruitt says the driver or owner would have to pay a $200 administrative fee, $75 to have the vehicle towed and $25 per day fee to store the car at the impound continue

                                                      

The Romeoville Police Department made the following arrests:

Michael Schultz, 31, 220 Murphy Drive, Romeoville, arrested at about 8:10 p.m. July 22 in the 700 block of Newland Avenue and charged with battery and criminal damage to property. He was also arrested for criminal damage to property in the 300 block of Macon Avenue at 2:40 a.m. July 23.

Gordon McLelland, 32, 908 E. 7th St., Metropolis, arrested at about 8:10 July 22 in the 700 block of Newland Avenue and charged with aggravated assault, battery, criminal damage to property and unlawful use of a weapon. Jacob Henderson, 18, 19315 Janet Ave., Lockport, arrested continue

Alabama State Troopers confirm the person behind the wheel in a a roll-over accident north of Athens was 14 years old and did not have a license.
The single vehicle crash sent three people to the hospital Sunday evening, just before 6 p.m.
A woman standing in her front yard says she saw it happen, after the SUV approached a curve on Slate Road at a high speed. Pat Bedding field said, “I’d say in excess of 70 miles per hour. He lost control on this curve and tried to correct himself. And that’s when he started to flip and landed in my driveway.”
She says she saw one passenger thrown out the back window. She rushed to help continue

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Bike Sharing Delayed Flow of Traffic

Some call the thoroughfare the pride of Harlem. But for Karen Owes, the boulevard named after Adam Clayton Powell Jr. represents something far more sinister. Ms. Owes, a mother of four, lives above a bar on West 138th Street in a second-floor apartment that overlooks the busy six-lane road bisecting the heart of Harlem. From her vantage point, she sees a boulevard of pain. Some of them linger in her memory. A neighbor, Peter, was hit by a car and killed while riding his bicycle about two years ago. His newsstand has been closed ever since, an aching reminder. A car hit an 11-year-old girl from her church a few weeks ago. The girl now watches praise dances from a pew, her leg encased in a cast. Ms. Owes has taken conspicuous precautions. She dresses her 8-year-old twin girls and her teenage son in vivid yellows, oranges continue

                                                 

By late July, city officials said, a long-awaited bike-share program would arrive, adding a new public travel alternative to the city’s streets. But with only two weeks remaining to accomplish that goal, the city acknowledged on Monday that the program, Citi Bike, would not begin as scheduled. “We’re working on the launch plan and will update the public as soon as we finalize all the details,” said Seth Solomonow, a spokesman for the Transportation Department, who confirmed the program would not begin in July. After advertising a July start date since the spring, the city had begun to hedge in recent days. On Friday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was asked during a radio interview if he knew when the program would begin. “Not yet, still working, trying to get it done,” he said. “With any big system there’s always things that you’ve got to make sure continue

                                                        

Technology aimed at preventing the deaths of children in hot vehicles is no substitute for careful care giving, federal officials said Monday, describing some products being sold as “unreliable.” A study released on Monday examined products designed to stop children up to age 2 from being left in parked closed vehicles. At least 527 children — more than half of them under 2 — have died in those circumstances since 1998, according to the report, which was done jointly by the Department of Transportation, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “There should never be any notion of a single absolute perfect solution,” said David L. Strickland, administrator for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, warning that too much reliance on technology could potentially contribute to a false sense of security. While these devices are very well intended and continue

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Cycling Proficiency Compulsory for Driving Licence

                                               

A 39-year-old White Pigeon resident driving on a suspended driver’s license led deputies from the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Office on a pursuit through Three Rivers Saturday, eventually fleeing on foot in Florence Township before being captured. According to a news release from the St. Joseph County Sheriff’s Department, the person took off when police tried to pull over the car for a minor traffic violation.
The driver is currently lodged at St Joseph County jail and has been charged with fleeing and eluding, resisting and obstructing, driving with a suspended license and several outstanding warrants. Three Rivers Police and Michigan State Police both continue

                                            

Dan Harris’s tragic death last Wednesday and Bradley Wiggins’ response have put cycle safety in the news again. But while we’d all love better cycling infrastructure, there is neither the money nor the political will to make our streets safer for cyclists. For all the positive talk about increasing the bike awareness component of the driving test, there is a limit to how much you can tell someone to be aware of their position on the road, and a limit to the effect that theoretical knowledge can have. So why not make cycle proficiency a mandatory condition for getting a driving licence? Every driver should have firsthand experience of what it’s like to ride a bike in the traffic. Any driver wanting to acquire an HGV licence has to get a normal driving licence first. And people wanting to take a car on the road continue

                                               

An NBC 5 Investigation has found a major flaw in the way the Texas measures wait times at Department of Public Safety Driver License Offices. The numbers DPS currently collects make the wait times appear shorter than they really are. More accurate measurements could help reduce the long lines that cause daily frustration at DPS offices across the Dallas and Fort Worth Metroplex. On a recent 97-degree summer day, the line at the DPS license office in Plano snaked outside into the parking lot. People waited in the Texas heat for an hour or longer just to get in the front door. Other DPS offices across the Metroplex had even longer waits, with some people waiting three hours or more. NBC 5 Investigates often saw empty spots at the counter with no one to help. Some frustrated customers simply gave up and left continue

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Outsource Driving Tests in States

                                             

New Jersey’s young-driver law, which requires novice motorists to display a red decal on their cars’ license plates, doesn’t violate privacy protections, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled. The state’s highest court rejected a challenge to the statute, known as Kyleigh’s Law, which argued the provision unfairly singles out a class of motorists in the state, where the driving privileges for young motorists expand in stages, and violates constitutional protections.
The law properly covers only “the group of drivers who are at specific stages of New Jersey’s graduated driver’s license system, which governs only drivers who have permits or licenses issued by this state,” the court concluded. Kyleigh’s Law was designed to improve safety for teenage drivers by making them easily identifiable to police. The statute, which continue

                                                

Hilton Head Plantation has ratcheted up security after a spate of car break-ins last month resulted in the theft of a handgun and a high-speed chase. Guests must now show identification, such as a driver’s license, to pick up passes and enter the gated community. Plantation security officers have long been allowed to ask anyone entering the community to show a photo ID but only recently made the practice routine, according to general manager Peter Kristian. The plantation chose to tighten its procedures after security officers discovered that a man who broke into at least three vehicles inside the community July 22 had entered using a gate pass issued to someone else, Kristian said Monday. Footage from a surveillance camera at the plantation’s front gate showed a guest pass on the dashboard of the suspect’s vehicle. Plantation records, though, showed no pass was ever issued to the person, continue                                              

At least 10 states have started outsourcing the driving test to cut costs and reduce congestion at offices that also handle vehicle licensing, according to a survey done by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators and USA TODAY research. South Carolina started a pilot program in June in 13 counties. Other states using third-party testers are Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Texas and Utah. The potential pitfall of farming out the test, officials at some of those states say, is the possibility of private companies not holding drivers to the same standards state testers use. “I think that for many of the states, the challenge is how do they manage their risk of fraud?” says Dave Muma, secretary of the Driving School Association of the Americas and owner of Century Driving Group in Holland, Mich continue

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Land for Sale in Harlan in Iowa

The Iowa Department of Transportation is offering land for sale in Harlan. The 5,930 square foot tract of land is located on the south side of Iowa 44 and west side of Southwest Avenue. The appraised value of the land is $8,100. Term of the sale is cash only. The Iowa DOT acquires real estate for highway improvement projects statewide. Any excess property or property improvements may be disposed of during or after the project development process. For more information on Iowa DOT property management, including sales continue

                                                  

The Department of Transportation & Public Facilities, HQ State Equipment Fleet, is soliciting bids for Helicopter Portable Core Sample Drill Rig. The State of Alaska complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Individuals with disabilities who may need auxiliary aids, services, and/or special modifications to participate in this procurement should contact the Contracting Officer named above at one of the following numbers no later than 10 days prior to bid opening date stated above to make any necessary arrangements continue

                                                   

The State of Alaska, Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (DOTPF), Northern Region Procurement is soliciting Sealed Bids for Coverall Rental and Laundry Service. The ITB can be downloaded at this site. If you need assistance obtaining these documents, contact Sandra Harrel at DOT&PF, Northern Region Procurement. The State of Alaska complies with Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. Individuals with disabilities who may need auxiliary aids, services, and/or special modifications to participate in this procurement should contact the Procurement officer named above at one of the following numbers no later than 10 days prior to bid opening date stated above to make any necessary arrangements continue

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Ford Escape Sleek for Test Drive

Ford Motor remade its Escape compact SUV so thoroughly that only the name and one engine carry over into the 2013. The 2013 even is made at a different factory, now in Louisville, instead of near Kansas City, Mo. The boxy old Escape was a big seller for Ford, so starting over was a risk. The new version hit showrooms in June and sales that month jumped 28% from a year ago, according to Auto data. But sales tumbled nearly 12% in July. The July slip was at least partly because of recalls. One recall is because the carpet might interfere with the brake pedal. The other one is for potential fire risk in models with the 1.6-liter EcoBoost engine, the one that most people are expected to choose. Ford banned dealers from selling those models until they were fixed. Ford is telling owners not to drive them and is having dealers pick up the vehicles to fix them continue

Modern day cyber threats come in many forms. Criminals use the Internet to commit fraud and theft on a grand scale and to prey upon our children. Spies and terrorists exploit our networks to steal our secrets, attack our critical infrastructure, and threaten our national security. And because the Internet offers near-total anonymity, it is difficult to discern the identity, the motives, and the location of an intruder. In 2008, the U.S. President mandated the NCIJTF to be the focal point for all government agencies to coordinate, integrate, and share information related to all domestic cyber threat investigations. The FBI is responsible for developing and supporting the joint task force, which includes 18 intelligence agencies and law enforcement, working side by side to identify key players and schemes. Its goal is to predict and prevent what’s on the horizon and to pursue the enterprises behind cyber attacks. There are many ongoing efforts in government continue

                                           

The new licenses, measuring 85.6 x 53.98 x 0.76 mm, are supposed to have a yellow background and a code system to differentiate each one and features about individual drivers. The licenses will include a profile photo, personal information including full name, birth date and address, and an expiry date, all of which will be printed in both Vietnamese and English. According to Vietnam News, the change is designed to synchronize the issuance of driving licenses, prevent counterfeit documents and improve the management of traffic violators nationwide. The proposed cost of a new license is VND135,000 (US$6.5). The city is expected to issue 1,000 new licenses per day.
Earlier, on demand from the General Directorate for Roads under the Ministry of Transports (MOT), the new model of driving licenses took effect from July 1, 2012. Those who have

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