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Bridge collapses in Washington state, sending cars into river
OLYMPIA, Washington (Reuters) - Part of a four-lane freeway bridge over a river in rural Washington state collapsed on Thursday, sending vehicles and drivers tumbling into the frigid water, authorities said. Two of the three people rescued from the river...
Tags: Hypothermia, Government, Barbara Williams, Politics, Transportation Industry
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Getting drunken drivers off road
From the St. Louis Post-DispatchWhen bundled with a host of other suggestions aimed at curbing drunken driving, the National Transportation Safety Board's proposal that state governments should reduce the allowable blood-alcohol concentration to 0.05 percent is reasonable. If the...Tags: Ronald Reagan, Transportation Industry, Bill Clinton, Highway Transportation
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David Zwick: Lowering alcohol limit makes sense
The National Transportation Safety Board recently recommended all 50 states reduce the legal blood alcohol limit for driving from the existing .08 to .05. Their reasoning is the level is too high and leaves some drivers still impaired even though they are...Tags: Criminals, Transportation Industry, Mardi Gras
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A sober approach to drunk driving
In its new report on how to reduce drunken driving deaths, the National Transportation Safety Board states its goal in the title: "Reaching Zero." The agency thinks it is irreproachable to try to ensure that no one ever dies in an alcohol-related...
Tags: Mothers Against Drunk Driving, Transportation Industry, Crime, Law and Justice, Drunk Driving
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Commute Should Be Back To Normal This Morning As Wreck Site Is Cleared
The Hartford CourantMetro-North and Amtrak said their trains will run normal weekday schedules on Wednesday morning, for the first time since a Metro-North train derailed near the Fairfield border on Friday and crashed into a train on the adjacent track. Regular service...Tags: Grand Central Terminal, Amtrak, New Haven (New Haven, Connecticut), Transportation Industry
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Metro-North Train Crash Highlights Infrastructure Need
On Friday evening at rush hour, two Metro-North railroad trains, one heading east out of Grand Central Terminal in New York City, the other heading west out of New Haven toward the Big Apple, approached each other on parallel tracks near Bridgeport. In...Tags: New York City, Grand Central Terminal, Westport, Railway Transportation, Amtrak
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Shell feared disaster days before Alaska rig grounding -official
ReutersBy Yereth Rosen ANCHORAGE, Alaska, May 20 (Reuters) - Days before a Shell drillship went aground in the storm-tossed Gulf of Alaska, it was clear that towing failures could spell disaster for the vessel, the crew and the marine environment, a company...Tags: Interior Policy, U.S. Coast Guard, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Politics
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Latest Indiana news, sports, business and entertainment
MERRILLVILLE-SHOOTING Officer shoots man outside medical facility MERRILLVILLE, Ind. (AP) — A northwestern Indiana police officer has shot a man while issuing a citation for an illegally parked semitrailer. The Times of Munster reports the...Tags: Fires, Punishment, Shootings, Social Issues, Government Debt
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Tighter Ind. drunken driving law seems unlikely
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Some key Indiana legislators say it's unlikely that the state will any time soon go along with a federal safety board's recommendation that the threshold for drunken driving be cut nearly in half. National Transportation...Tags: Transportation Industry
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Commuter plane makes emergency landing on belly in Newark
A commuter plane with 31 passengers aboard was forced to make an emergency belly landing in Newark, N.J., early Saturday morning when the aircraft’s landing gear failed to fully deploy. After circling Newark Liberty International Airport several...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Air and Space Accidents, Transportation Industry, U.S. Airways
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Fake prom crash brings home lesson of drinking and driving
Beneath a cloudless blue sky, a simulated fatal car crash was depicted in horrifying detail at Lake Zurich High School. The deadly post-prom tragedy included a lifeless teenage girl wearing a blood-splattered dress splayed over the hood of a...
Tags: Transportation Accidents, Human Mishaps, Transportation Industry, Disasters and Accidents, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration
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Here is the latest Indiana news from The Associated Press
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities say autistic children lived in the Indianapolis apartment where a fire has killed two children. A woman was taken to a hospital in critical condition from the blaze this morning in the community of Cumberland on the...Tags: Punishment, U.S. Geological Survey, Transportation Industry, Autism
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