According to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, a new law in that state that has banned texting while driving has lead to the doubling of the number of traffic tickets related to that activity. August represented the first full month since the law was passed in New York, and its police wrote 1,082 tickets to drivers who continued to use their mobile devices for texting while driving. This number of issued tickets was over twice the amount that were written at the same time in 2010. Within the first half…
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Allstate insurance ranks American cities for most and least likely to have an auto accident
Allstate Insurance has released its annual ranking of the best and the worst cities for traffic accidents… with Washington D.C. ranking as the city with the greatest likelihood of collisions, and Fort Collins, Colorado holding the distinction of having the lowest odds of a crash. In order to rank the cities, the insurer compared the frequency of auto collisions with the population of the city. This provided Allstate with the average driver’s odds of being in an accident. They also compared that likelihood with the average for the country. In…
Read MoreNew York’s fire department proposes unpopular “Crash Tax”
The Stanton Island City Council has been pushing around a new proposal that is being referred to as, “crash tax” This new fee will be assessed to both drivers, whether at fault or not, and can become effective as early as this July. The FDNY will charge $490 to each driver involved in accidents resulting in injuries, $415 for vehicle fires and $365 for just showing up. In a statement from FDNY spokesman Steve Ritea, “The intention here is to take the burden off of taxpayers and make the parties…
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