Deadly Md. road known for street races
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Despite complaints, illegal street racers have roared for more than 20 years down the flat, straight stretch of Maryland highway where eight fans were killed this weekend, a community leader said Sunday.
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Robby Gordonâs revenge might have ended Tony Stewartâs and Jeremy Mayfieldâs chase for the Nextel Cup championship before it started.
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The most dangerous roads in Scotland are revealed in a new survey of fatal crashes and accidents.
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An investigation is launched after one person is killed and 20 injured in crashes involving more than 40 vehicles.
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Police in eastern England are searching rural areas for clues in the deaths of five women, all believed to be prostitutes killed by a serial killer. Police are warning prostitutes to stay off the streets of Ipswich, fearing the killer could strike again. "Clearly it's not safe, they need to stay off the streets," said Chief Supt. Stewart Gull of Suffolk police.
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The driver of a sport utility vehicle plowed across sidewalks and crosswalks throughout the city Tuesday, killing one man and injuring at least 13 people in a series of attacks on pedestrians and motorists, police said.
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At least 12 tons of concrete collapsed onto a car in a Big Dig tunnel, fatally crushing a passenger and prompting renewed scrutiny Tuesday of a troubled highway project that is already the costliest in U.S. history. The state attorney general said he plans to treat the site as a crime scene that could lead to negligent homicide charges.
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Police seek hit-run driver:  McHenry County sheriff's police are seeking the public's help to identify a driver involved in a hit-and-run crash Tuesday night that left a bicyclist from Crystal Lake hospitalized. The crash occurred about 7 p.m.
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High winds have brought travel problems to parts of Britain and led to the death of at least one motorist.
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Seven people were killed early on Saturday when a car plowed into roadside spectators watching a high-speed street race in a town near Washington, according to media reports.
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NEW YORK  - Women who live within 50 meters   of busy roads face an increased risk of dying from a heart   attack, stroke or other cardiopulmonary cause, according to a   new study.
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PGA Tour player Arjun Atwal is under investigation after police said what appeared to be a high-speed street race ended in a fatal crash near Orlando, Fla. Atwal was not injured in the accident Saturday at 5:30 p.m. The other driver, John Noah Park, 48, died at a hospital, Florida Highway Patrol Trooper Kim Miller said Sunday.
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Annapolis, Md. - One can scarcely imagine any form of failure marching on these monument-laden grounds. It has, though, about as abject as it can get without live ammunition.
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By MICHAEL RUBINKAM HAMBURG, Pa. - National Guardsmen towed stranded vehicles from highways and officials toiled to clear roads early Friday following a monster storm that has been blamed for at least 15 deaths.
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Deamonte Driver, the 12-year-old Prince George's County boy who died in February of an infection caused by an abscessed tooth, was one of more than 10,780 Medicaid-eligible Maryland children who had not seen a dentist in at least four years, a congressional analysis has concluded.
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By Amanda Ricker, Grand Forks Herald, N.D.  Jun. 2--A 7-year-old boy who was killed driving an all-terrain vehicle this week near Warroad, Minn., was able to legally drive the vehicle because he was on private property, according to law enforcement officials.
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It is assumed that the death toll would further increase. The collision occurred at the Hoshiyarpur district in Jalandhar at the Pathankot railway section where an express and local train collided together near the Mansar village.