Barron Nicholas Hilton II, one of socialite Paris Hilton’s two younger brothers, has been ordered by an L.A. County Superior Court jury to pay a $4.9 million fine in a civil suit related to a DUI charge. Hilton was sued by Fernando Tellez, who was hit and injured by Hilton’s Mercedes Benz in a 2008 [...]

Women drivers get into a higher than expected number of traffic accidents with other women drivers, according to a recent study by University of Michigan researchers. The study of data from a nationally representative sample of police-reported crashes from 1988 to 2007 looked at six different crash scenarios between two vehicles, based on speed, direction [...]

As the legal use of marijuana rises across the U.S., many states have failed to write laws that prohibit driving while high, and, some authorities argue the number of pot-related auto accidents is growing as a result. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that, based on random roadside checks, 16.3% of nighttime drivers [...]

Felony child abuse, loss of a toddler’s life, a mother captivated by social media. Sounds a little like the Casey Anthony trial that’s transfixing people lately. But we’re talking about Aurora, Colorado, where 30-year-old Karen Pena was arrested Thursday on charges of child abuse resulting in death, a Class 3 felony. She is being held [...]

Summer is a time when teen drivers get into the largest number of fatal accidents, according to AAA. In fact, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says, “Traffic crashes are the leading cause of death for teenagers in America. Mile for mile, teenagers are involved in three times as many fatal crashes as all [...]

As we approach the dog days of summer, it’s a good time to think about driving with dogs because they can distract drivers just as much as children and cell phones. Nearly one third of 1,000 people who have driven with their dog revealed in an online survey that the dog distracted them while driving. [...]

In recent years, inventors have come up with many features to decrease the number of traffic accidents. Emily Finn at MITnews elaborates in her excellent article “‘Smart cars’ that are actually, well, smart”: Engineers have developed myriad safety systems aimed at preventing collisions: automated cruise control, a radar- or laser-based sensor system that slows a [...]

Smartphone apps are great, but not when they make the roads more hazardous by helping drunk drivers avoid the police. So it’s good news that Apple has finally announced its store will stop carrying new apps that tip drivers off to those drunk driving checkpoints that haven’t already been disclosed by the police. It was [...]

Sad news in the music world. Philip Walden, Jr. died in what is being called a freak accident Tuesday evening in Atlanta, Ga. It was determined that Walden, 48, died of blunt force injury to the chest during an accident at the Piedmont Driving Club. Mike Morris, a reporter for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, gives us the [...]

Have you seen the new car commercials? The one’s where the driver can check his Facebook page from the dash while driving? This is an accident waiting to occur. Social media is the “big thing” these days. Every day, more people embrace it, and the increase in mobile access has vastly accelerated that growth. People [...]