driving

Anyone who uses Edgewood Road on a daily basis knows it's been a near nightmare for almost the past year as you approach Highway 100.  Starting tomorrow, that tension eases, as the bridge reopens.  Well, kind-of.

Aaron Van Riper is a volunteer firefighter who had the horrible experience of responding to an accident, only to find that is was his family inside the mangled car. His wife had been driving with their son when they collided head on with a pickup truck, resulting in Aaron's wife being thrown from the car.

I've lived in Cedar Rapids for about a year now and this is my outsider's perspective on things Cedar Rapidians complain about way too much.

A few weeks back, I put some speed cam poetry on my blog. Maybe the Iowa Department of Transportation read it. Maybe monkeys will fly out of my mailbox when I receive my next ticket. Anyway, now the fight gets good.

The Iowa Legislature will vote next week on a proposed 10-cent-a-gallon gas tax. A Des Moines Register's Iowa poll shows a 50/50 split among Iowans. Roughly half of us like the idea to help pay for road improvements on the over 114,000 miles of state roads and highways...

If you're of the opinion that old people shouldn't drive, prepare for exhibit A in your defense.

It's the words you never want to hear come across the news or a police scanner: "Major accident involving school bus".  It's something we take real caution in announcing over the air for concerns of deep panic. But that was just the case Tuesday afternoon, as we closed out the work day.

WYXZ-TV was covering Sunday's snowstorm that dumped 18 inches on Detroit and southeastern Michigan with one of its reporters out showing how bad the roads were. Right when the mayor of Eric Zane's hometown of Warren was talking about how dangerous it was, a minivan passed by pulling a guy on skis behind it.

There are plenty of things that you just shouldn't do while driving. You shouldn't text. You shouldn't (and aren't allowed) to consume alcohol. You probably shouldn't read a book or trim your toenails. But what about eating while driving? That's OK, right?

During a snowstorm Wednesday in northern Michigan, a motorist and his family in their minivan was having trouble seeing and they rear-ended a semi truck on the Interstate 75 near Grayling. But their problems were just beginning.