Traffic Accidents and Safety
Jeremy Renner Was Run Over by 7-Ton Snow Plow, Authorities Say
The actor Jeremy Renner, who was critically injured on Sunday, was run over by a snow plow weighing more than 14,000 pounds that he had used to tow his car on a snowed-in private road near his home in Reno, Nev., the authorities said on Tuesday. Mr. Renner, 51, had been helping a family member […]
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‘We’re on That Bus, Too’: In China, a Deadly Crash Triggers Covid Trauma
After a bus accident killed at least 27 people being transferred to a Covid quarantine facility on Sunday, the Chinese public staged a widespread online protest against the government’s harsh pandemic policy. It was a moment of collective grief and anger, with a heavy dose of shame, guilt and despair. After nearly three years of […]
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Anne Heche Is Brain-Dead After Crash, Representative Says
Update: Anne Heche died on Sunday in Los Angeles, nine days after she was in a devastating car accident there. The actress Anne Heche, who had been in a coma since a car crash last week, has been declared brain-dead and is being kept on life-support to see if her organs are viable for donation, […]
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Jackie Walorski, Indiana Congresswoman, Is Killed in Car Crash
WASHINGTON — Representative Jackie Walorski, Republican of Indiana, was killed in a car accident in her district on Wednesday, according to her office. She was 58. Ms. Walorski’s husband, Dean Swihart, was informed of her death by the Elkhart County Sheriff’s Office, her office said in a statement. “She has returned home to be with […]
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Uber Safety Report Says Sexual Assaults Down but Rate of Traffic Deaths Up
Uber said in a safety report on Thursday that sexual assaults in its ride-hailing vehicles were down significantly since its last report but that the rate of fatal car crashes had increased. The company said 3,824 sexual assaults were reported on its U.S. platform in 2019 and 2020, while 20 people were killed in assaults […]
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DUI Arrest of Nancy Pelosi’s Husband Illuminates the Speaker’s California Life
Speaker Nancy Pelosi had just urged Brown University graduates to stay resilient and summon their “better angels” on Memorial Day weekend when she was forced to turn her attention to a less uplifting situation: her husband’s arrest in California. The details emerging from the incident were not especially flattering. The night before, May 28, Paul […]
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Clint Bowyer, Former NASCAR Driver, Involved in Fatal Car Accident
Clint Bowyer, a Fox Sports analyst and former NASCAR Cup Series driver, was involved in a car accident in Missouri last week in which he struck and killed a woman who was walking on a highway, the authorities said. Mr. Bowyer, 43, “immediately hit his brakes” and called 911 after striking the woman while driving […]
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Self-Driving and Driver-Assist Technology Linked to Hundreds of Car Crashes
Over the course of 10 months, nearly 400 car crashes in the United States involved advanced driver-assistance technologies, the federal government’s top auto-safety regulator disclosed Wednesday, in its first-ever release of large-scale data about these burgeoning systems. In 392 incidents cataloged by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration from July 1 of last year through […]
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Auto Safety Agency Expands Tesla Investigation
The federal government’s top auto-safety agency is significantly expanding an investigation into Tesla and its Autopilot driver-assistance system to determine if the technology poses a safety risk. The agency, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, said Thursday that it was upgrading its preliminary evaluation of Autopilot to an engineering analysis, a more intensive level of […]
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