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Queensland has a new state-of-the-art advanced driving simulator that will help advance Australian road safety research and provide insights into driver behaviour. The Centre for Accident Research and Road Safety – Queensland (CARRS-Q) is based at the Queensland University of Technology. The $1.5 million project allows drivers to step into a Holden Commodore and simulate driving at speed under different conditions, thanks to eight computers, projectors and a six degree of freedom motion platform that moves and twists in three dimensions. The simulator offers a virtual driving environment for a driver and up to four passengers, complete with rear vision...

Leather jackets will mingle with pin-stripped suits today when motorcycle clubs arrive at the State House to see their driving-safety bill signed into law by Gov. Martin O'Malley. The bill will impose a six-month suspension, a $1,000 fine or both on drivers who injure or kill somebody by violating road right-of-way laws. Members of American Bikers Aimed Toward Education, or ABATE, of Maryland have fought for the past five years to pass the legislation, but were largely unsuccessful until this year, when the Maryland Motor Vehicle Administration supported it. The fight became personal in 2006 after the driver of a...

One-Eyed Deaf Driver, 82, Tows Trailer At 88mph Oct 20 2007 By Gordon Currie Oap Faces Road BanA ONE-EYED, deaf 82-year-old was caught pulling a trailer at 88mph on one of Scotland's deadliest roads.Maurice Hollyfield told a court he wasn't paying attention because he had his stereo turned up loud so he could hear the music.He also claimed he thought his car's rev counter was the speedometer.Hollyfield, whose left eye is made of glass, was clocked by a speed camera on the A9 at Waterloo between Perth and Dunkeld. He should only have been doing 50mph.David Holmes, defending, told...

Russia has become the world leader in terms of car accidents per 10,000 cars, the World Bank has stated. Photo: www.tau.ur.ru As many as 34,000 people died in car accidents across Russia in 2004, the Russian Information Agency Novosti quoted Kristalina Georgiyeva, the head of the Russian office of the World Bank, as saying as part of a Russian report on driving safety. “In Russia the situation is worse than in the world on average,” she said. “In terms of the number of car accidents per 10,000 cars — 12 accidents — Russia takes first place.” Korea, which has...

<p>PORTAGE COUNTY -- A mother traveling from Detroit to Pittsburgh got into trouble in Portage County while trying to drive and breastfeed her baby at the same time.</p> <p>Twenty-nine-year-old Catherine Donkers had fed the baby before she left Detroit but said her seven-month-old daughter was hungry again.</p> <p>"I knew I was doing nothing wrong when I was breastfeeding her," Donkers said.</p> <p>Donkers doesn't consider her actions excessively dangerous.</p>

EACH WEEKDAY, dozens of Oregonians mark a poignant milestone at Driver and Motor Vehicle offices throughout the state. They are not among the hundreds of teen-agers elated upon getting their first driver's licenses. In fact, they are the flip side of those happy, high-fiving 16-year-olds. They are older Oregonians who have just lost their driving privileges. If "getting your license" is among the most anticipated events of the teen-age years, losing it is among the most dreaded events of later life. As a character in James Michener's "Recessional" tells fellow residents of his Florida retirement community: "The two sorriest days...