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1. Costs Rising For Insuring Family Car

Author

Lieber, Ron

Subjects
Automobile insurance -- Contracts -- Prices and rates -- Forecasts and trends, Inflation (Finance) -- Influence -- United States, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Market trend/market analysis, Company pricing policy, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Have several children, a driveway full of cars and a few moving violations? Good luck to you. There are some ways to lessen the financial pain. If you're 16 years [...]

Published
2024

2. A pregnant woman who was ticketed for driving in an HOV lane has gotten another ticket

Subjects
Traffic violations -- Social aspects, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=1120692940 HOST: RACHEL MARTIN RACHEL MARTIN: Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. In June, a pregnant Texas woman was ticketed for driving in the [...]

Published
2022

3. How Broken Taillights End in Killings by Police

Author

Kirkpatrick, David D., Eder, Steve, Barker, Kim, and Tate, Julie

Subjects
Police shootings -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Police -- Powers and duties, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Officers, trained to presume danger, have reacted with outsize aggression. For hundreds of unarmed drivers, the consequences have been fatal. ''Open the door now, you are going to get shot!'' [...]

Published
2021

4. The Influence of Status on Pedestrians' Failure to Observe a Road-Safety Rule

Author

GUEGUEN, NICOLAS and PICHOT, NATHALIE

Subjects
Pedestrians -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Social status -- Influence, Psychology and mental health, Sociology and social work
Abstract

LEFKOWITZ, BLAKE, AND MOUTON (1955) found that some pedestrians were more likely not to obey the signals at a crosswalk when following the example of an offender of obviously high [...]

Published
2001

5. Cops Hand Out Lottery Tickets Along With Citations

Subjects
Lottery tickets -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Police -- Social aspects
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=257536928 GONYEA: Good morning. I'm Don Gonyea. You gamble when you speed or run a red light, but drivers in Melbourne, Florida got to […]

Published
2013

6. How To... Fight A Ticket

Author

So, Adrienne

Subjects
Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Traffic regulations -- Interpretation and construction -- Social aspects
Published
2008

7. New WSSC chief got job despite history of incidents with the utility's vehicles

Author

Shaver, Katherine

Subjects
Washington Suburban Sanitary Commission -- Officials and employees, Political appointments -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Katherine Shaver In 2006, Carla A. Reid, then deputy general manager of Maryland's largest water utility, drove an agency-owned vehicle around a curve on the Capital Beltway, lost control [...]

Published
2016

8. AIMING FOR A SLOWER SUMMER; Deputies crack down on speeding, saying it's more perilous when school's out

Author

Barnwell, Alison

Subjects
Hernando County, Florida -- Social aspects, Automobile driving -- Forecasts and trends, Motor vehicle driving -- Forecasts and trends, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: ALISON BARNWELL; Times Staff Writer Two Hernando County sheriff's deputies waited like fishermen, tucked in a police cruiser behind the bushes and trees near the intersection of Sand Ridge [...]

Published
2013

9. Anything To Avoid Paying a Fine

Author

Dwyer, Jim

Subjects
Fines (Penalties) -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Of the many fevers that can grip the human animal, the desire to fix parking and traffic tickets has few equals for absurdity. A few years back, I heard tell [...]

Published
2011

10. Driving Without English

Subjects
Traffic police -- Practice -- Social aspects, Immigrants -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Dallas, Texas -- Social aspects
Abstract

Police officers giving drivers $204 tickets for not speaking English? It sounds like a rejected Monty Python sketch. Except the grim reality is that it has happened at least 39 […]

Published
2009

11. The fast and the foolish

Author

Cheney, Peter

Subjects
Traffic police -- Practice -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Automobile drivers -- Behavior, Traffic regulations -- Interpretation and construction -- Social aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Peter Cheney Catching a high-speed driver is a bit like landing a record game fish. It takes luck and skill, and it's a numbers game. Just over a week [...]

Published
2009

12. The dilution of crime.

Author

Nyman, Trevor

Subjects
Drug abuse -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Criminal justice, Administration of -- Evaluation, Tax evasion -- Social aspects
Published
1981

14. Exposing the 'Myth' of Racial Profiling

Author

Will, George F.

Subjects
Race discrimination -- Investigations, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Racial profiling -- Investigations
Published
2001

15. Taking Aim at Profiling

Subjects
Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Race discrimination -- Laws, regulations and rules, Maryland -- Laws, regulations and rules
Published
2001

21. Facts of driving while black.

Subjects
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Laws, regulations and rules, Traffic violations -- Social aspects
Published
1999

22. Road signs of racism.

Subjects
Discrimination in criminal justice administration -- Laws, regulations and rules, Traffic violations -- Social aspects
Published
1999

23. Talk it out

Author

Cook, Marc

Subjects
Traffic police -- Practice, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Motorcycles -- Touring, Government regulation, Sports and fitness, Travel, recreation and leisure
Abstract

You didn't see The Law heading the other direction at light speed until it was too late. But The Law has seen you. A tap of the brakes, a quick [...]

Published
2012

24. Kenyan traffic plan runs into opposition

Author

Simmons, Ann M.

Subjects
Kenya -- Traffic, Traffic engineering -- Political aspects, Traffic congestion -- Kenya, Traffic violations -- Social aspects
Published
1998

26. But Female Moped Riders Are So Cute

Author

Go, Alison

Subjects
Mopeds -- Laws, regulations and rules, Mopeds -- Social aspects, Sex discrimination -- Social aspects, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Government regulation, General interest, News, opinion and commentary, University of Minnesota -- Social aspects
Published
2007

27. Essays drive the point home Birmingham

Author

Askari, Emilia

Subjects
High school students -- Cases, High school students -- Research, Traffic violations -- Laws, regulations and rules, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Company legal issue, Government regulation, Business, Business, regional, General interest
Published
2007

28. Meter reader: as a senior traffic supervisor, 52-year-old Captain Andrea Fernandez writes parking tickets and keeps cars moving for the City of Los Angeles

Author

Davis, Sarah

Subjects
Traffic police -- Personal narratives, Traffic police -- Practice, Traffic violations -- Statistics, Traffic violations -- Social aspects
Abstract

* "One of the hardest things to learn on this job is not to take it personally. People will cuss and yell at you. I have been threatened several times […]

Published
2007

29. SAUDI ARABIA: NO RENEWAL OF PASSPORTS FOR THOSE CHARGED WITH MOVING VIOLATIONS

Subjects
Saudi Arabia -- Social policy, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Business, Business, international, High technology industry
Abstract

The KSA Today newspaper quoted the Manager of the Visa Section of the Interior Ministry, Col. Abdul Aziz Sujayni, who told the paper that the Section will not renew passports [...]

Published
2002

30. 2 wheels + 2 feet = 2 points of view

Author

Quindlen, Anna

Subjects
Transportation Alternatives -- Management, Bicycles -- Usage, Cycling -- New York, Traffic violations -- Social aspects, New York, New York -- Traffic
Published
1983

31. A nation of outlaws

Author

Yates, Brock

Subjects
Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Speed limits -- Analysis, Traffic regulations -- Interpretation and construction
Published
1985

34. Social contracts for $25

Author

Schanberg, Sydney H.

Subjects
Traffic violations -- Social aspects, Social history -- New York, New York, New York -- Social aspects
Published
1981

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