Federal agents and the state fire marshal have effectively barred a federal safety panel from the site of a Texas fertilizer plant blast that killed 15 people and injured about 200 others, hampering its investigation, the panel’s chairman said. In …
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Officials say another Brazilian tourist has died of wounds sustained after a hot air balloon crashed to the ground, raising the number of tourists killed to 3. The balloon collided with another balloon mid-air and crashed during a sightseeing tour …
A national nonprofit is cheering Hawaii’s new law that prohibits people from holding cellphones and other portable electronics while driving. Jonathan Adkins from the Governors Highway Safety Association in Washington says Hawaii is the 11th state to ban handheld phone …
Continuing its campaign to change the dangerous behavior of driving while distracted, the Arbella Insurance Foundation announced that it will make a state-of-the-art text-blocking technology solution more affordable to hundreds of drivers in an effort to curb multi-tasking at the …
Gov. Bobby Jindal on Monday ordered the state’s conservation commissioner to review all permits issued to Texas Brine Co., the operator of a collapsed salt dome in Assumption Parish that authorities say caused a 15-acre sinkhole and an ongoing evacuation …
About 120 people have taken nearly 125,000 sobriety tests using an ignition interlock device as part of South Dakota’s 24/7 Sobriety Program since it became available for use in October, South Dakota’s attorney general announced Monday. Attorney General Marty Jackley …
The Indiana Supreme Court has upheld the state law limiting punitive damages awarded in civil lawsuits and directs most of that money to a state victims fund. The court ruled 5-0 that the limit still applied, even in a case …
Officials from the Governor’s Office of Highway Safety are looking to lower the number of cyclist fatalities in 2013. Department spokeswoman Ashley Fielding says 18 cyclists were killed in the state in 2012, representing a 28 percent increase in the …
Police in central Pennsylvania say a woman lost control of her sport-utility vehicle, drove along a sidewalk and crashed after her small dog got tangled up in the steering wheel. The Press Enterprise reports the accident happened in front of …