MANILA, Philippines—The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) has issued a preventive suspension order on all 18 units of the MGP Trans bus company after one of its buses figured in a fatal accident last November.…
A taxi driver from Caloocan City was recently arrested for abandoning a pedestrian who was hit by his cab last week in Quezon City, police said Friday. Insp. Elmer Monsalve, chief of the Quezon City Police District’s…
Quezon City’s “killer highway” claimed another life Wednesday morning, this time that of a 73-year-old motorist who lost control of his car till it crashed into four other vehicles on the opposite lane. A taxi driver and…
BELGRADE, Serbia — Serbian police say the father of former NBA center Vlade Divac has died in a car crash. Police say on Wednesday that 77-year-old Milenko Divac died at a hospital after the car he was…
LOS ANGELES—The car carrying late “Fast and Furious” star Paul Walker was doing over 100 miles (160 kilometers) per hour when it crashed, nearly cutting the high-powered vehicle in half, coroners said Friday. The 40-year-old actor’s body…
A sophisticated, real-world study confirms that dialing, texting or reaching for a cellphone while driving raises the risk of a crash or near-miss, especially for younger drivers. But the research also produced a surprise: Simply talking on…
SAN FRANCISCO — Death, devices and celebrity drove the quest for more information on Google’s search engine this year. Three of the world’s four fastest-rising search requests on Google were triggered by the deaths of famous men.…
LUCENA CITY – At least five persons were injured when two passenger buses collided head-on along the Maharlika Highway in Atimonan, Quezon early dawn Tuesday, police said. Senior Supt. Ronaldo Genaro Ylagan, Quezon police chief, said at…
LEGAZPI CITY—Six persons were killed, among them five church leaders returning home from a humanitarian mission in typhoon-ravaged Leyte, when a van collided with a passenger bus before dawn on the national highway in Juban town, Sorsogon.…
BANGKOK — A bus carrying New Year travellers plunged off one of Thailand’s highest bridges in the kingdom’s northeast, leaving at least 29 people dead, police said Friday. The accident occurred around midnight Thursday-Friday in Lom Sak…
