Highway Hazards Archives

Be sure to clear the exhaust pipe before running your car after a snowstorm.

Car headrests were designed for resting heads. Any other use is incidental to their intended purpose.

A warning about gang members driving around with their headlights off, then killing anyone who flashes them, is old and false.

Rumor holds that the use of cellular phones poses a danger of touching off explosions at gas stations.

A driver foils an attempted carjacking by ignoring a 'body' lying on the road, then inadvertently kills her four would-be attackers.

Did an artist secretly paint a 60-foot-high image of a naked woman above a tunnel in Malibu Canyon in 1966?

Are teens throwing lit gas-soaked rags into cars as a new way to amuse themselves?

Are police officers dying in airbag accidents caused by trying to open locked car doors with a lock pick?

Is static electricity a suspected cause of a reported increase in gas station refueling fires?

Are Los Angeles' 'sig alerts' so named for an acronym for 'stay in garage'?

Motorist who has a run-in with ruffians afterwards find the severed fingers of his assailants on his car.

Do thieves hid under people's cars to slash their ankles?

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