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Investigators from the barracks near Uniontown, about 40 miles south of Pittsburgh, contend 18-year-old Ewing Marcus Marietta II fell asleep or otherwise lost control of his 2001 Ford Mustang about 2:45 a.m. while driving down a steep stretch of U.S. Route 40 coming home from a football camp in North Carolina in July 2009. Troopers concluded Marietta was ejected from his rolling car, and died from resulting head injuries three days later.

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Cyclists have been urged to get insurance by the Association of British Insurers (ABI), the insurance body whose members last year made a combined loss of £1.2billion*. The ABI warns that failure to get adequate cover could leave cyclists facing high bills if they are injured in an accident or are found responsible for causing one.

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Scranton Mayor Chris Doherty’s proposed 2012 $83.9 million budget not only restores six of 13 police officers laid off in August because of an October state court ruling, it includes funding to acquire new police vehicles, including a wagon, and computer servers, according to Business Administrator Ryan McGowan.

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A Somerville man was killed in the Thomas P. O’Neill Jr. Tunnel yesterday after he was involved in a fender-bender, got out to exchange information with the other driver and inspect the damage, and was struck by another vehicle.

Authorities said the accident illustrates the danger of stopping in Big Dig tunnels, where tight lanes and a lack of breakdown lanes can prove deadly for drivers leaving their cars.

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Hybrid cars don’t only save the planet and your gas money, but they’ll also save you in an accident. Drivers are 25 percent less likely to be injured in a crash than drivers of a standard car. 

A study by the Highway Loss Data Institute, an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, looked at crash data for more than 25 hybrid cars with conventional counterparts.

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 A British price comparison service has become the first company to launch a car insurance price comparison app which is available to all iPhone and iPad owners.

MoneySupermarket.com has teamed up with renowned app experts MIG (Mobile Interactive Group) to produce the app which retrieves car insurance quotes from over 100 different providers in a matter of minutes. 

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The ideal way to save money is to exert effort once and automatically reap savings over and over again, every month. That’s why examining your car insurance makes a lot of sense.

Auto insurance prices vary widely. On average, car insurance cost Americans $789 per vehicle annually in 2008, the most recent year of data provided by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

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Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B) surged 0.19%, to close at $72.89 and its overall traded volume was 2.77M shares during the last session with the total traded volume of 6.28M shares. BRK.B opened the day at $72.77, it made an intraday low of $72.60 and an intraday high of $73.53. The stock has a 52-week range of $65.35-$87.65. At current market price, the market capitalization of the company stands at $182.33B and it has 2.50B outstanding shares.

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Dependent upon the precise set of circumstances, sometimes freedom of speech isn’t necessarily free. Ask NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Kurt Busch who just recently found out that there’s a significant rise in the cost of middle fingers and “F bombs.” It now appears that the going rate for this form of self expression is $50,000 according to NASCAR officials.

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By Alan Yonan Jr.

Auto insurance premiums for Hawaii motorists rose slightly this year from 2010, the state Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs reported in its annual comparison of the state’s top motor vehicle insurers.

The average annual premium for someone with a clean driving record rose to $467.55, a 0.7 percent increase from last year, according to a recent analysis of DCCA data.

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