Yahoo News Protesters in Greece demand justice for victims of February's deadly train crash
Thousands in Greece protested against safety deficiencies in the country's railway network after a deadly crash killed 57 people in February.
Thousands in Greece protested against safety deficiencies in the country's railway network after a deadly crash killed 57 people in February.
Presenter is reportedly quitting the BBC series following the crash
A ship carrying 74,000 tons of cargo crashed into Pier 77 at a port in Kaohsiung, Taiwan on March 20, after approaching the quay at excessive speed despite repeated radio warnings from the harbormaster's office. Authorities reported that the captain was allegedly drunk at the time of the accident.
A new documentary explores a theory that a fifth plane was set to be hijacked on September 11, 2001. Io Dodds reports.
Is Ford about to revisit its past by relaunching the Capri name on an electric vehicle (EV)? Back in 1969 at its launch, the original Capri two-door coupé was “The Car You’ve Always Promised Yourself” according to Ford’s advertising department, yet the name had been used before, as a 1961 Ford Consul Capri and as a 1952 Lincoln Capri, so is history about to repeat itself?
Air Passenger Duty for internal links will be cut from £13 to £6.50 on 1 April
Nearly 700,000 cars face daily Ulez charges when the scheme is expanded, RAC data show – hitting thousands more drivers than Sadiq Khan, the London Mayor, had estimated.
The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) has alleged a driver caused three commercial vehicles to crash on an interstate in Hillsborough County on Thursday morning, March 23.FHP released this footage of the incident, which was recorded at around 9:47 am on Thursday morning, according to the timestamp.The video shows a driver in a green Toyota sedan cutting off a dump truck traveling southbound on Interstate 75 in Lutz. The move caused the dump truck driver and two tractor-trailers to crash, FHP said.No injuries were reported and the road reopened. FHP has appealed for anyone with information about the driver of the sedan to contact them. Credit: FHP Tampa via Storyful
The government has outlawed drivers from even touching their phones while on the road, with the threat of £200 fixed penalty notices and six penalty points for those caught flouting the law. Dean Brown, a 54-year-old London Taxi Driver by trade, was caught out by a cyclist with a dog in one hand and his phone in the other. You can watch the video footage of the incident – wryly titled “on the dog and bone” – as the cyclist films Brown driving his Kia past Carpetright in Wimbledon with the pooch in his lap before confronting him over his behaviour.
The ultra low emission zone will be expanded to cover the whole of London from August 29.
Details on 11 people who have recently been sentenced at Poole Magistrates' Court.
The moment Mitchell Dickenson from Costessey was arrested after swerving across the A14 near Woolpit, Suffolk, has been caught on camera.
The pub said vehicles are often left in its car park for the day, or even a week, while people go off on the ferry.
Elderly drivers have hit record numbers, Driver & Vehicle Licensing Agency data reveals.
The Ultra Low Emission Zone is expanding to all of London in August 2023, but one 1 in 10 will pay the charge.
A wanted man is being sought by police after he ran from the scene following a car chase
"It's a race to the biggest machine driven by the biggest assholes, and it's society that will pay for that arrogance."
An Essex city centre is congested during rush hour after a crash in a major road.
Footage was overwritten when the train went "immediately back in service following the accident," according to a federal agency investigating the incident.
Three years after Luxembourg declared all public transport free in a bid to clear its roads of jams and cut pollution, the car is still king of the congested Grand Duchy.Traffic permitting, it is barely an hour's drive from Weiswampach in the far north of Luxembourg near the German and Belgian borders to Dudelange in the south, next door to France. So the wealthy country of just 650,000 people appeared the perfect place for a bold experiment -- making public transport on trains, trams and buses free nationwide.But Luxembourg, despite its lack of long-distance highways, has one of the highest rates of car ownership in Europe, with only Poland exceeding its rate of 681 vehicles per 1,000 residents.Cross-border workers bring in tens of thousands more vehicles every day as commuters head to jobs in Luxembourg, and long-distance drivers often pass by to fill their tanks in a country with low fuel taxes. "I often say that Germans build cars and Luxembourgers buy them," joked Deputy Prime Minister Francois Bausch, who is in charge of mobility and public works.So, three years after ticket offices closed, there's no sign that Luxembourg has ditched the automobile for the tram, even if Bausch sees a thinning of traffic in the capital. - Car culture -"Car culture is truly dominant and it remains pretty tricky to attract motorists onboard public transport," mobility expert Merlin Gillard, of the LISER research institute, told AFP.Luxembourg, along with the rest of the European Union, is attempting to transform itself into a carbon neutral economy by adopting green technologies in transport, energy, factories and farms.Prime Minister Xavier Bettel's government is a coalition of liberals, socialists and greens, and it boasts of investing 800 million euros a year ($872 million) in public transport.The duchy has Europe's highest-funded tram network per capita, costing 500 euros per person each year."It is the country that invests the most in Europe," Gillard acknowledged, "but Luxembourg is coming from far behind. We're making up for investment that has been very weak for years."In Luxembourg city, a modern financial services centre built around an historic old town nestling in tight loops of the Alzette river, passengers appreciate the changes.The central station is undergoing a thorough renovation, an ultra-modern funicular links the upper town to the riverside, and road lanes have been set aside for buses and trams.Most of all, though, and uniquely in Europe: the network is free.This, said Edgar Bisenius, owner of a financial services business, is the prime consideration when choosing between a car and the bus. "And it's very positive for the environment," he told AFP. French teacher Ben Dratwicki travels around the capital by bicycle on personal business, but takes the funicular and the train to get to his school 20 kilometres (12 miles) north of the city."Transport is a basic right for residents," he argued. "If we have the right to work, we should also have the right to be taken to work, without paying over the odds."But Dratwicki seems to be in a minority across the country, where traffic jams of private cars still block major arteries during rush hour.Part of the explanation may be the 220,000 cross-border workers, vital to Luxembourg's economy, who arrive every day from neighbouring countries to enjoy higher wages... but a longer commute.- Cross-border park and ride? -The trains and buses they could board in France, Belgium or Germany are not free until they cross into Luxembourg, and many daily workers remain wedded to their cars. Bausch, a Green, has a plan to help some of the French workers, who after all pay their income taxes in Luxembourg.He aims to finance car parks on the French side of the border, and has promised that from 2027 or 2028 there will be a train from the French town of Thionville to Luxembourg every seven minutes.Experts like Gillard, however, are sceptical, saying the problem is embedded in the underlying structure of the Luxembourg economy.French workers can't afford rents or property prices in Luxembourg, but much of the cash they save by living at home is wasted on the busy and polluting commute to work. ps-mad/dc/js
If you think back across the history of Top Gear, what is it that comes to mind? Clarkson’s controversies, perhaps. Maybe a few of the races in stupid vehicles. Or the cameos from big stars such as Tom Cruise. Mainly, though, it would be the crashes. Indeed there are websites recording “every accident in Top Gear’s history”. Whenever Top Gear makes the headlines, it invariably means there’s been another crash. Thankfully most of them are harmless; some are even hilarious.