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Seen on a blog: Cars are a horrible indicator of wealth.
This is so true. I can remember some years ago, out driving, and seeing some luxury cars, and thinking it must be nice to be rich enough to afford that. Thing is, many of those folks aren’t making any more, or much more, that [...]

A motorist who was texting on her mobile phone when she hit and killed a cyclist has been sentenced to four years in prison.
Jordan Wickington, 19, died from head injuries when he went through a red light and was struck by Kiera Coultas’s car in Southampton in February 2007. The 25-year-old from Hythe, Hampshire, was [...]

These are awards for the most outlandish lawsuits and verdicts in the U.S.
In sixth position this year:
Carl Truman, 19, of Los Angeles, California won $74,000 plus
medical expenses when his neighbor ran over his hand with a Honda
Accord. Truman apparently didn’t notice there was someone at the wheel
of the car when he was trying to [...]