An 18-wheel tractor-trailer plowed into a rail-road bridge in upstate New York on Thursday sparking a massive explosion with flames rising to 200 feet into the night sky, dramatic footage of which was captured by an eyewitness. The tractor-trailer was carrying some type of compressed natural gas or propane, and …
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How would you like to drive a car that runs on sunlight? Sounds cool, right? Well, that’s what the Solar City micro EV from Squad Mobility can do for you. It’s a small, cheap, and green car that can zip through the city streets without using any gas. And the …
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Russia Wednesday vetoed the Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution that would have established a tribunal to prosecute those responsible for downing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over Ukraine last year. The foreign ministers of Netherlands, Australia, and Ukraine have been attending a meeting over the shooting down of the plane on …
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California, Washington and New Mexico may lose millions of dollars in federal funding if they continue to fail to enforce English language requirements for truckers, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Tuesday. Duffy said the three states have 30 days to comply with federal English Language Proficiency (ELP) requirements after an …
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A driver miraculously survived a 300-foot plunge over the side of a highway in Colorado last week, walking away with only minor injuries, officials said. The wreck happened along U.S. Highway 550 in Ouray on Oct. 9, the Ouray Mountain Rescue Team, Inc. said in a statement on Facebook. Rescuers …
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A man has been charged with multiple counts of vehicular homicide after authorities said he drove his semitruck too close behind a van, triggering a fiery, multi-vehicle crash on a Georgia highway that killed eight people from the same family, including five children. Kane Aaron Hammock, 33, faces eight counts …
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A scathing new report into the Titan submersible disaster that killed five people has found the vessel was damaged during earlier dives and built through a flawed engineering process that failed to meet safety standards — conditions that ultimately led to its fatal implosion. The report released by the National …
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A California woman was struck by a small airplane that crashed in a Long Beach park during an attempted emergency landing on Tuesday, according to officials. The emergency landing attempt took place around 4 p.m. on a soccer field at Heartwell Park, the Long Beach Fire Department said on Facebook. …
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Dashcam video from a deadly California freeway crash involving a suspected illegal immigrant truck driver in a tractor-trailer shows the vehicle plowing through bumper-to-bumper traffic in a wreck that killed three. Jashanpreet Singh, 21, received a California commercial driver’s license in June, according to the federal Department of Transportation. The …
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