Safety

With Toronto making headlines as the worst city for speed traps and also being one of the three major Canadian cities named to the top 5 list of worst rush hour traffic in North America, it should come as no surprise to see Toronto streets making up most of Ontario's top 10 worst roads. The ...

When Ismael Martinez, a foiled carjacker, was scoping out Dorothy Baker-Flugence's minivan, we're sure he didn't expect it to end with him getting punched in the face, then getting run over by said minivan. Dorothy Baker-Flugence was getting into her minivan with her two and five year-old ...

Motorcyclists often encounter wildlife whilst out enjoying the twisty mountain passes in Western Canada. On June 9th, Tim Bartlett was out christening his new to him motorcycle, riding east from Radium Hot Springs on Highway 93 through the Kootenay National Park in British Columbia when he ...

Mitsubishi has already announced that it will be returning as a competitor to the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb with a pair of all-electric MiEV Evolution II racecars. In addition to these entrants, the automaker will also be the presenting sponsor of the race as well as providing the ...

Visit just about any major city on the water, and you're sure to find duck boats taking tourists out for a different view of the city. The safety of these land and sea vehicles have been questioned following some high-profile accidents including a fatal collision with a barge in Philadelphia back ...

A new study has found that roughly 12 per cent of red light violations are caused by distracted driving. The research looked at 118 intersections in 19 communities over a three-month time span. After reviewing stoplight camera images from those intersections, researchers found that approximately ...

Today's automotive windshields are commonly made with two layers of tempered glass sandwiching a sheet of optically clear polyvinyl butyral (PVB), a plastic layer that holds everything in place even when the glass is broken. While the basic design works very well (credit Henry Ford with ...

The US state of South Carolina may soon lead the way into the future with electronic licence plates for cars and trucks in North America. Using so-called electronic paper, technology similar to what is seen on digital readers like the Amazon Kindle, these new licence plates would be capable of ...

Veteran NASCAR driver Jason Leffler was killed in a race accident Wednesday night, during a sprint car event at the Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey. Having raced at many levels of NASCAR as well as IndyCar, Yahoo! Sports says that the 37-year-old racer spent this year racing on dirt tracks in a ...

The motorsports community lost a member over the weekend when a track worker was killed just after the checkered flag waved at Formula One's Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal. When the F1 race ended, track officials were working to remove the crashed racecar of Formula 1 driver Esteban Gutierrez ...