| Oil Tank Cars Like Those in Quebec Rail Tragedy Long Seen as Flawed |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
oil-laden train that derailed and exploded in a small Canadian town on Saturday, possibly killing as many as 50 people, included a class of railcar whose vulnerability to leaks and deadly explosions was well known to regulators. The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board has issued safety guidelines on the widely used, cylindrical tank cars known as DOT-111s, including a recommendation that ...
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| Toyotas first acceleration case starts |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
Noriko Uno was afraid of driving fast, often avoiding the freeway and taking the same route every day from her Upland home to and from her family's sushi restaurant. She had put only 10,000 miles (16,090 km) on her 2006 Camry in about four years. So, when her car unexpectedly accelerated to speeds up to 100 mph (160km/h) on a street with a posted limit of 30 miles (48km/h) the 66-year-old ...
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| Case against Toyota to begin |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
LOS ANGELES - Noriko Uno was afraid of driving fast, often avoiding the freeway and taking the same route every day from her Upland home to and from her family's sushi restaurant. She had put only 10,000 miles on her 2006 Camry in about four years. So when her car unexpectedly accelerated to speeds up to 100 mph on a street with a posted limit of 30, the 66-year-old bookkeeper did ...
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| Port wants to build auto terminal at Sparrows Point |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
The Maryland Port Administration wants to build an auto terminal at the former Sparrows Point steel mill in the next few years, speeding plans to bring jobs to an area hungry for ...
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| Customs seize trucks for smuggling N100m turkey |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
The Ogun State Command of the Nigeria Customs Service has confiscated 15,000 cartons of frozen turkey concealed in an articulated vehicle allegedly belonging to Dangote Cement along the Idiroko border, Ipokia Local Government ...
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| First Toyota sudden-acceleration trial set to begin |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
Uno was killed when her car went onto a median and struck a telephone pole and a tree.Her case is the first to go to trial in a proceeding that could determine ...
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| New car sales stalling in Europe |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
The European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association reported last week that new-car registrations in the European Union were down 6 percent in June compared with those for that month a year earlier, and were running at their slowest pace since 1996. Even in Germany, whose economy has been stronger than those of most its European brethren, sales were the lowest for any June since the country ...
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| Alfa Romeo to drop FWD models return to rear-drivers report |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
will cease production of its front-wheel drive-hatchbacks and shift to rear-wheel-drive models in early 2015, according to an overseas report. Car magazine claims the ...
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| Grand Theft Auto is Delhis big game |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
Going by these figures, there is a constant increase in the crime.According to the NCRB data, 8,171 motor vehicles were stolen in Delhi in 2012. The number is much more than all the other metropolitans put together. Mumbai ranked second among the metros with just 1,307 car theft cases."After a vehicle is stolen, the thieves change the engine and chassis number of the vehicles with that of ...
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| Cars tablets TVs to cost more as govt plans to raise duty |
Jul 22nd, 2013 |
This cloud-based software integrates all facets of an operation, including examination & evaluation, assignments, attendance, fee, transportation, ...
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