Do you have a teenaged student that is about to journey off to college? Are you and he/she contemplating buying a used car for that student? Then check out this article and do your homework before just going out and buying something that is affordable. The April 12 issue of Status Report ...
For a person arrested for driving while intoxicated, you often see two separate charges; in addition to the charge of DWI, you may also see a charge of “driving with a blood alcohol content of .08 of one percent or greater.” Essentially, both charges are the same, except the BAC of 0.08 ...
If you have had a few alcoholic drinks and then drive a vehicle, chances are you will do something that, if seen by a police officer, will give probable cause for pulling you over. This might be something like crossing the pavement lines, weaving within your lane, or a number of things that ...
East Main St. Road (U.S. Route 11) on the east end of the village of Malone is a four-lane main highway. For eastbound (EB) traffic, there are two lanes from the Porter Road to the Brainairdsville Road (county Route 24), about 8/10 of a mile. For westbound (WB) traffic, there are two lanes ...
Recently a friend of mine’s car was hit while parked in a shopping center parking lot. An announcement in the store alerted her to the problem. Since the other person admitted to hitting her vehicle, and both were insured by the same insurance company, the only action taken by both drivers ...
On May 3, the Franklin County Traffic Safety Board held its enforcement recognition breakfast at the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino in Hogansburg. The purpose of this annual event is to recognize two officers from each enforcement agency in the county for their contribution to traffic safety through ...
Last week’s article discussed Utah’s introduction of legislation, which, if passed, would lower the legal BAC limit for DWI from 0.08 to 0.05 in that state. This article explores a bit further into impaired driving and the profile of an impaired driver from the results of a study on ...
Under calls that it will save lives, Utah legislators sent a bill to the state’s House floor in February to make Utah’s legal blood alcohol limit for driving the lowest in the nation. It was approved in March and will become law if the governor, who says he supports the law, approves it. ...
Normally, after obtaining a New York state driver’s license, it must be renewed every eight years and includes passing a visual acuity (eye) test. There are no old-age restrictions on licensure in New York; for example, you could be 88 years old and renew for an additional eight years, which ...
The Governor’s Traffic Safety Committee, the agency that funds the Franklin County Traffic Safety Board, has announced the “No Empty Chair” initiative for this April, which will encourage heavy enforcement that targets specific violations relative to the safety of students and teenage ...
About a year ago a “Did You Know” article discussed the need for any highway sign to meet the following five criteria; fulfill a need, command attention, command respect, have one simple message, and give adequate time for proper driver response. The proliferation of “Children at Play” ...
The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety launched headlight ratings last spring after finding that government standards based on laboratory tests allow for huge variation in the amount of illumination headlights provide in on-road driving. Nighttime visibility is critical to highway safety ...
Normally quiet hybrid and electric vehicles will be required to make noise under a new federal rule intended to protect pedestrians. According to an article in the Feb. 1, 2017 issue of “Status Report” from the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the National Highway Traffic Safety ...
In early March, an article in the Malone Telegram reported that several traffic signs have been disappearing from roads in the town of Chateaugay. Town highway Superintendent Roger LaBombard allegedly reported to the town board that several stop signs were missing, apparently removed by ...
You are traveling out of state and are given a ticket for a traffic violation in another state or province — what happens next and how does it affect your New York state driver’s license? Well, it depends on the violation and where it happens. New York State Department of Motor Vehicles ...
All that traffic! Have you ever wondered just how much traffic there is on our highways? Are counts really increasing? How do they measure traffic volumes? The New York State Department of Transportation counts traffic not only on state highways but also on county and town roads and on some ...
Last week’s article presented 20 questions on vehicle and traffic law and traffic control devices. Hopefully you took the test and kept your answers. In this article, the questions are repeated along with the answers and the authority for the answers. See how well you did. True or ...
An annual winter feature of the weekly “Did You Know” articles is a 20-question quiz on vehicle and traffic law (VTL) and traffic control devices (TCDs). The first 10 questions are true/false and questions 11-20 are multiple choice. The answers will be found in next week’s article and ...
We have all read about autonomous vehicles. We have heard all about Google and Tesla and the robot cars that are being tested and that, hopefully, will be much safer than existing vehicles by removing driver error from our highways. But how close are we to giving up control and just letting the ...
All drivers exceed posted speed limits sometimes. The question is, when you are speeding, are you aware of it, or do you not realize it? A previous study by Saratoga Town Court and Albany Law School found that a majority of speeders are unaware that they are speeding. They may be ...