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Animal-looking cars could cut road deaths |
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 Road safety campaigners could cut the road death rate by lobbying for cars to be made to look more like animals. New studies show that people’s brains are unconsciously attuned to detecting the movement of animals, rather than inanimate objects such as cars
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Drink driver ran over himself |
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A US man was accused of drink driving after a police chase that ended with him running over himself. The 21-year-old was treated for minor injuries at a Santa Fe hospital and then charged with driving while intoxicated, fleeing a police officer and careless driving. After narrowly missing other vehicles, police said the suspect drove through a ditch and a barbed-wire fence before stopping. He tried to put the truck into park, but it ended up in reverse. Police said the man fell from the open door of his truck and both of his legs were run over by the front driver's side tyre.
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Fleeing suspect picks the wrong place to hide |
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A suspect who ran away from a traffic stop chose the wrong place to hide when he slipped under a parked truck — and then was run over when the driver pulled away. The Arizona Department of Public Safety said an officer stopped a 26-year-old man in west Phoenix just before 7 a.m. after he ran a red light. The man gave the officer his license, then ran away and disappeared behind a convenience store. As the officer searched for him, the moving truck driver got back in his truck and started to drive away, running over the suspect.
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Woman jailed over 24,000-euro parking fine |
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An Austrian woman has begun a 500-day jail sentence for ignoring parking tickets and failing to pay a cumulative fine of around 24,000 euros. They said the 38-year-old civil servant from the southern city of Graz was jailed after ignoring 700 attempts by local authorities to notify her of the fines over a 2-year period. A police spokesman said that under Austrian law, the woman could only spend 42 days at a time in jail for this offence, so her term would be split into several stints behind bars.
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Students fail to engineer car-dangling prank |
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A botched university prank to suspend a car from a Vancouver bridge on Monday has left five engineering students facing criminal charges. The University of British Columbia students were caught as they tried to lower the shell of a Volkswagen Beetle from the Iron Workers Memorial Bridge during the night. However, the cables eventually failed, sending the car plunging into the waters of Vancouver harbour. The dangling-car prank has become an annual tradition to publicize the university's engineering week. In one incident in 2001, a car was secretly suspended from San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge, causing a massive traffic jam.
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