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The cause of this near miss was following distance. We are on public roads (where situations change constantly) not race-tracks; what does it matter if someone changes lane ahead of you because you are leaving a proper gap? Keep driving/riding like this and eventually your luck is going to...

I hope something positive (learning for all of us) can come from this close call: following distance should be at least 2 seconds behind cars and much more than that behind tall vehicles. When the van swerved the rider's vision follows the vehicle resulting in the rider slow to act (been there...

Re: I belive there should be no mitigating factors as a 16yr girl is dead From what she states and how she states it in the article it seems that she feels that it wasn't a mistake to stop on the roadway. It wasn't an accident, she stopped on purpose. She may not have intended for people to...

Re: I belive there should be no mitigating factors as a 16yr girl is dead There are so many contributing factors to the deaths of the motorcycle riders, making this such a sad story. To me what makes this story even more sad is the belief of the driver of the stopped car that she didn't do...

Regarding your first point that may be true. Regarding your second point that would be true if the government charges for the test the same amount as they do for people that have lost their driving privilege due to medical reasons and must take a driving test which is $0 or people aged 80 and...

Would like to know what the road maintenance companies are using for melting ice and snow; after they drop it on the snow the situation is worse as the snow doesn't melt but also comes away from the roadway.

As they say the apple doesn't fall far from the tree.

What ever happened to Turbo? Is it next to the Avro Arrow in some Museum?

Don't worry the investigation is still in the early stages; there's still time.

MTO only wants to appear to be doing something, not actually working toward making driving safer. Take for example senior drivers: prior to 1996 any driver in Ontario having reached the age of 80 would have to take part in Licence Renewal Program for Drivers Age 80 and Above. this program was...

Ministry of Transportation states again and again that in Ontario we have some of the safest roads in North America. Even the Auditor General of Ontario stated that you can't simply use 1 criteria (death rate) as a measurement of what constitutes safety (in 2007 audit). MTO is still presenting...

Not sure the article doesn't give an actual date (all articles are after December 5. 2014) as to when the Tennessee Department of Transportation made the decision. The article states that the signage will be up by mid January. Trucks over 30 feet are banned. Shorter trucks will still cause...

Government oversight of Driving Schools is ineffective as the inspectors don't perform surprise inspections but rather give a two week warning. As for dealing with collisions (the idea that you have) there is a program to deal with that already, but the Ministry of Transportation is not...

It's about time. It wasn't banned in Tennessee only recommended; although there were signs (for many years) telling truck drivers to use the Foothills Parkway as the alternate route. Never saw any truck using the alternate route as it adds a long distance to their travel. I hope they enforce...

At least he had a lot of his buddies to stand over him and look.

They'll just have some of their buddies steal police communication equipment and keep each other in the loop.

The school bus driver should have refused to take the bus out on the road without proper working lights. If the employer would have threatened the driver with penalty, they then could have quietly made a call to the Ministry of Labour informing them of a Work Refusal due to unsafe equipment.

That's a long document. The parts that I did read cover controlling that towing companies and storage companies have to inform people of the charge for services so that consumer can decide, and that the actual cost of services cannot exceed the estimate of services by more than 10%. Also why...

Re: "The Beer Store’s secret sweetheart deal with LCBO revealed" - says The Star And the people of Ontario continue to want the LCBO to be sold. Sure, why not private ownership will surely make things better for consumers. Just like MTO contracting services to private companies: enjoy lower...

That's one hell of a speed bump. I'm not seeing a lot of signage or paint markings to warn.