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Archive for December 29th, 2008

Check Your Floormats, Folks

Via Newsday:

For years before a bunched-up floor mat apparently caused a motorist to lose control of his gas pedal and careen into a storefront Hanukkah party in Woodmere, mat problems have been blamed for crashes across North America.

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Posted on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 6:47 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Habitual DUI Driver Banned “For Life” Inexplicably Posesses Valid License, Kills Another Driver

This takes lax traffic enforcement to new levels.

Police said English had been arrested six times on charges of driving under the influence. “His driver’s license has been suspended numerous times, I think an excess of 20 times,” Evansville police Chief Brad Hill said.

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Posted on Monday, December 29th, 2008 at 6:31 pm by: Tom Vanderbilt
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Traffic Tom Vanderbilt

How We Drive is the companion blog to Tom Vanderbilt’s New York Times bestselling book, Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do (and What It Says About Us), published by Alfred A. Knopf in the U.S. and Canada, Penguin in the U.K, and in languages other than English by a number of other fine publishers worldwide.

Please send tips, news, research papers, links, photos (bad road signs, outrageous bumper stickers, spectacularly awful acts of driving or parking or anything traffic-related), or ideas for my Slate.com Transport column to me at: info@howwedrive.com.

For publicity inquiries, please contact Kate Runde at Vintage: krunde@randomhouse.com.

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