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Police said they arrested a South Charleston man for driving under the influence after he flipped his middle finger at Kanawha County Sheriff Mike Rutherford and then crashed his car. Glenn Harold Vickers, 53, was arrested Thursday night near the Microtel Inn off the Montrose Drive exit in South Charleston. Rutherford said Vickers took the exit and as he did, he extended his middle finger toward the sheriff. Vickers then crashed the right side of his station wagon along the exit's guardrail, Rutherford said.

WASHINGTON -- The co-author of new research that shows male drivers have a greater risk of dying in a car accident than women -- based on miles driven -- takes his research to heart. When he travels, his wife takes the wheel. "I put a mitt in my mouth and ride shotgun," said David Gerard, a Carnegie Mellon University researcher who co-authored a major new U.S. road risk analysis. The study's surprises The highway death rate is higher for cautious 82-year-old women than for risk-taking 16-year-old boys. New England is the safest region for drivers, despite stories about crazy Boston...

A GERMAN school bus driver could face jail time for giving the stiff-armed Hitler salute to pupils as they boarded each day. Police said they also found compact discs with neo-Nazi rock music on board the bus in the southern town of Vilshofen and were investigating whether the 39-year-old driver had played them for the adolescents. Teachers had reported the driver to police, accusing him of giving far-right CDs to the children. The suspect admitted during questioning to regularly giving the Nazi salute to the pupils over the course of several weeks.

The anecdote was widely reported and commented on in recent days, leading the Issaquah district to release a statement today saying it was not the only incident the driver had been involved in. The statement said: "This incident has to do with the responsibility of an employee who is supervising students to act professionally and serve as a role model for appropriate behavior," Superintendent Janet Barry said. After leaving the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, the bus driver waited with a busload of middle school students on an onramp closed for the Presidential motorcade. The bus driver made an obscene...

A speeding, out-of-control car driven by a naked woman fatally struck a pedestrian and collided with another vehicle before sailing over a fence and landing in a shopping center parking lot, authorities said Thursday. The driver, Taliyah Taylor, 24, of Staten Island, was pulled out of the car by police following the 10:50 p.m. incident Wednesday, said William Smith Jr., a spokesman for the Staten Island district attorney's office. She was awaiting arraignment Thursday at Staten Island Criminal Court on charges of second-degree manslaughter and driving while impaired by drugs. The court was trying to find her a lawyer, Smith...

PHOENIX, Arizona (Reuters) - As a mortgage broker in Arizona, Francesca Cisneros is used to working with big numbers. It's the double-digit speed limits she has trouble with. Cisneros racked up 70 speeding tickets in the last five months, a record for the Scottsdale Police Department, police said on Friday. Speeding cameras in Scottsdale, a suburb of Phoenix, snapped pictures of the 32-year-old woman as she tore through the sun-baked city in her Honda Civic between March 2 and July 31. "She told arresting officers she was speeding because she seemed to be late for client meetings all the time,"...

FORT HUACHUCA — Slightly more than three years ago Chief Warrant Officer Corey Lefebvre was heading to Fort Rucker, Ala. He wasn’t going on duty. He was heading on post to pick up some milk and put gas in his vehicle. Around 7:30 p.m. — BAM — his life changed. He was hit by a drunken driver doing 75 mph. After the wreck, Lefebvre saw his military career take a different path as the result of the crash. Just a week away from graduation at the Army Aviation Center, the former enlisted soldier was heading toward a career as an...

Border Patrol agents discovered 91 illegal entrants who had been smuggled into the country in the back of a panel truck Thursday night southwest of Sonoita, an official said Friday. The Border Patrol received a call around 10 p.m. from someone concerned about possible illegal activity, said Jesus Rodriguez, a spokesman for the agency's Tucson Sector. The caller suspected the truck was picking up illegal entrants. When Border Patrol agents from Nogales and Sonoita pulled the truck over on Arizona 82 around Milepost 26, about 35 miles south of Tucson. the driver got out and ran into the brush, Rodriguez...

May 18, 2006 Albany -- There is talk of raising Georgia's driving age to 17 or 18. Why? Because so many teenage drivers are killing themselves-- and others. Six thousand teen fatalities in the United States last year. The biggest threat to their well-being seems to be distracted driving. So what can we do to protect them from themselves? Teens behind the wheel give new meaning to multi-tasking. Phones, CD players, and friends, distract young drivers-- who can least afford it. Stephanie Phillips has, not one, but two teenage girls. 16-year old Amore is already driving. and 15-year old Charity...

DAYTONA BEACH -- A thundering blast and black smoke shooting skyward jolted a cyclist from a tranquil afternoon ride. Steve Sliwa stopped his bike, jumped through some hedges and spotted an elderly woman trapped in a burning car in front of her home near Champions Drive. Steve SliwaMerry Banks' burned car sits near her home in LPGA International. Banks backed the car into a power company box, and it caught fire. Passer-by Steve Sliwa pulled her from the car as it burned. Banks was not injured. Merry Banks, 88, had lost control of her sedan as she was backing out...

Two pedestrians were injured when they were struck by a teenage driver who had dropped her cell phone, St. Cloud police said. Police said the 17-year-old girl was searching for the phone when her car drifted out of the driving lane and struck two women Thursday evening. One of the pedestrians suffered a broken leg. The other had a bruised shoulder. Both were taken to St. Cloud Hospital. The driver was cited for inattentive driving and released to her parents.

TEN STUDENT protesters were injured yesterday after a Paris motorist, angry that they had blocked a road, drove his car into them. The driver only escaped following police intervention after his car was overturned and he was dragged out by the demonstrators. The incident near the Sorbonne University laid bare some of the frustration surrounding the government's new plan for getting more young people working and the opposition of students and unions to the scheme. On Paris's Left Bank, protesters disrupted traffic by picnicking on a busy boulevard. They were heading away when a frustrated motorist tried to burst through...

Are potential Islamic terrorists trying to get commercial driver's licenses (CDLs) and hazardous materials hauling certificates? You bet, they are. In droves. The latest, as reported by Kansas City media, is the South Central Career Center Truck Training Program in West Plains, Missouri, in South Central Missouri. A whopping 60% (SIXTY PERCENT!) of those who took a CDL test there from May 2004 to December 2005 had Mid-East names. Hello? . . . And, as usual, your tax dollars probably paid the bill. That particular truck driver's school is run by Missouri's West Plains public school district, as part of...

A school bus driver was arrested for driving under the influence with four children under the age of 6 Friday, the California Highway Patrol said. Tara Cook, 35, was booked into Kern County Jail on one count of DUI and four counts of child endangerment -- one count for each child on board -- Officer Mark McWilliams said. Officers were called at 2:13 p.m. to respond to a bus that had stopped in the middle of a road after driving into the center median, McWilliams said. She had passed out, he said. The driver was taken to Bakersfield Memorial Hospital...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese driver, afraid of having to take a breath-test, fled a police drink-driving checkpoint even though he was well under the legal alcohol limit, but ended up crashing his car. The 44-year-old man drove through the checkpoint on a road in the western Japanese city of Ikeda late Wednesday. Pursuing police officers found the car about half a mile away, upside down in a dry riverbed below the road. The driver, who suffered light injuries to his legs, was sitting beside the vehicle. "I'd been drinking, so I fled," the Mainichi newspaper quoted the man as...

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - State transportation officials are considering a "bad driver surcharge" that would fine drivers who cause accidents that lead to traffic jams. The Indianapolis Star reports that the fee is meant to reduce the number of traffic-snarling crashes on Indiana's most congested highways and roads. The fine would require General Assembly approval. It is listed as a "recommended funding option" in Republican Governor Mitch Daniels' Major Moves road plan.

The driver of the embassy of Jordan in Iraq removed in Baghdad AMMAN - the driver of the ambassador of Jordan in Iraq, itself Jordanian, was removed Tuesday morning in Baghdad, indicated to AFP a Jordanian official source. "the driver of the ambassador, a Jordanian bench in Iraq for several years, has been removed one hour ago (towards 05H30 GMT)", indicated this official source, under cover of anonymity. "the Jordanian government started contacts to know the persons in charge for this removal", added the source.

One person was seriously injured after Lakeland police said an 89-year-old woman drove her car through a Winn-Dixie window at Harden Boulevard on Tuesday morning. Police said the woman, Blanche Garvin, was driving when she hit another car and a tree before hitting a man who was sitting outside the grocery store trying to raise money for charity. Police said the man's leg was severed in the accident. "The man was sitting there taking collections for his church at a little card table and it took his leg off," said witness Dwain Taylor. "His leg was like 10 or 15...

A station wagon barreled head on into a school bus carrying 14 Kellam High School students Monday morning in Pungo, killing the car’s driver and sending nine teens and the bus driver to the hospital with minor injuries. (snip) The car’s driver, Jesus Valdivia, 41, who lived in the 1000 block of Gill Court, was killed. (snip) Valdivia was a non resident alien from Mexico whose driving privileges had been revoked before the accident.

ST. PETERSBURG - Ralph Parker had shown signs of dementia before, but his condition worsened dramatically over the past week. Argumentative one minute, calm the next. Alarmed, Parker's son left Idaho on Wednesday to get his 93-year-old father in a safe place, police said. Before he could get here, his dad backed his gold Chevrolet Malibu out of the driveway and went for a drive. It ended horribly. Parker hit a man crossing 34th Street S, severing the man's right leg, then drove 3 miles with the body stuck in the windshield. When police asked Parker what happened, he said...