Today’s Headlines
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By
Ted Rogers
9:35 AM PST on November 15, 2013
- Traffic Fatalities Up For 2012; Bike, Ped and Motorcycle Deaths All Up (NHTSA)
- Rare Bi-Partisan Bill Calls for Separate Safety Standards for Bikes & Peds (ENEWS)
- Ireland Considers 10-Year Prison Term for Hit-and-Run (Irish Times)
- Railroad Industry Calls for Safer Tanker Cars (LAT)
- 60 Freeway Shuts Down for Hours When Hydrogen-Towing Semi Catches Fire (LAT)
- Let’s Bake A Cake — Vincent Thomas Bridge Celebrates 50th Birthday (Daily Breeze)
- Freeway-aggedon! Overnight Closures for 5-Freeway in Orange County (KABC-7)
- Surface Street-aggeddon! Westwood and Overland to Close for Expo Work This Weekend (The Source)
- Football-aggedon! Rare Friday Rosebowl Game Could Tie-Up Pasadena Traffic (Daily News)
- Very Distracted Driving, as Teen Driver Hits Cyclist While Looking at the Pretty Leaves (SL Tribune)
- Daily Carnage: Driver Killed in Downtown Freeway Collision (Daily News)
- BMW Proposes Underwater Mini Cooper Fleet in LA River (LA Curbed)
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