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When drivers are too dangerous to buy traditional insurance, states often require insurance companies to sell it to them anyway at steep cost. Is that a good thing for safety?

A City Council bill that advocates believe will unleash a nicely remunerated civilian army against drivers who recklessly block roadways and bike lanes is looking likely to move ahead.

NYC PBA and its ilk feed traffic violence across the nation with a corrupt perk.

A new short form documentary from the Boston Globe exposes how a loophole in the national driver's license compact is keeping drivers who have killed on U.S. roads.

With speed cameras no longer issuing tickets, it’s unclear what will become of legislation to take cars away from habitual speeders.

The four bills set out to expand the city's automated speed enforcement program and to revoke driving privileges from motorists who demonstrate unfitness to operate vehicles on public streets.

After cabbie Mohammed Himon ran over English tourist Sian Green on a Sixth Avenue sidewalk, the city's Taxi and Limousine Commission announced it would seek a 30-day license suspension for the driver, who already had nine points on his record from an injury-causing crash, speeding, and red light running. The suspension summons, which brought a guilty plea from Himon, raised a nagging question: Given that Himon had enough points from TLC to warrant suspension even before he hit Green, why hadn't his driving privileges already been put on hold?

The DNAinfo story on the crash that injured multiple people in Midtown Saturday night is like the elementary school exercise that involved a sequence of sentences with one that didn't belong.

When does just plain bad driving cross the line and become criminally negligent driving? According to the State of New York, almost never. As advocates and legal experts will tell you, our laws make it notoriously difficult to bring appropriate charges against those who cause serious injury or death with their cars. But a decision [PDF] handed down by the state Court of Appeals should give prosecutors an important new tool.

Today's Wall Street Journal reports on the extraordinary lengths that a certain breed of driver will go to in order to avoid culpability for speeding and red-light running. With the use of automated enforcement cameras on the rise, some motorists are making it abundantly clear that they see themselves as above the law: