Updated 7:48 am CST, Friday, March 1, 2019 A man's vehicle burst into flames after a crash in southeast Houston. He was tested for possible DWI on the scene. A man's vehicle burst into flames after a crash in southeast Houston. He was tested for possible DWI on the scene. Photo: Metro Video Photo: Metro Video Image 1 of / 13 Caption Close Image 1 of 13 A man's vehicle burst into flames after a crash in southeast Houston. He was tested for possible DWI on the scene. A man's vehicle burst into flames after a crash in southeast Houston. He was tested for possible DWI on the scene. Photo: Metro Video Man tested for possible DWI after car bursts into flames following crash in SE Houston 1 / 13 Back … [Read more...] about Man tested for possible DWI after car bursts into flames following crash in SE Houston
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Child thrown from car involved in T-bone crash in north Colorado Springs
A juvenile was hospitalized after being hit by a car that ran a red light Saturday morning in north Colorado Springs.The child, whose gender and age were not available, was in a Lexus turning onto Interstate 25 from the eastbound lanes of Woodmen Road when another Lexus going west ran a red light and T-boned the other car, police said. Police: Two drivers arrested in fatal crash in south downtown Colorado Springs were racing at 70 mphBoth vehicles spun, and the child was thrown from the Lexus. They were not wearing a seatbelt, police said.The child and three others were hospitalized with unknown injuries.Police told Gazette news partner KKTV that the driver of the second Lexus may have run the light because they were distracted. The driver will be charged.The crash occurred about 10:45 a.m.This is a developing story. Check back for updates. … [Read more...] about Child thrown from car involved in T-bone crash in north Colorado Springs
Man killed in T-bone crash in downtown Colorado Springs identified
A man killed in a crash last week southeast of downtown Colorado Springs has been identified as Norman Giddings, the El Paso County Coroner's Office said.The 64-year-old's death is the 45th of the 46 traffic fatalities in what has become a unprecedented year on the roads. With a month and a half left in the year, the city has already surpassed the record of traffic deaths set in 1986 by three.Giddings was heading north on South Nevada Avenue in a gray sedan and attempted to turn left onto Cimarron Street about 6:30 a.m. Friday. A silver SUV heading south on Nevada collided with the sedan in the intersection, police spokesman Lt. Howard Black said. Third pedestrian killed in southeast Colorado Springs intersection in two weeksGiddings was thrown from the car and killed.The woman driving the SUV and a young child in the passenger seat were hospitalized with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. … [Read more...] about Man killed in T-bone crash in downtown Colorado Springs identified
Man killed in T-bone crash southeast of downtown Colorado Springs identified
A man killed in a crash last week southeast of downtown Colorado Springs has been identified as Norman Giddings, the El Paso County Coroner's Office said.The 64-year-old's death is the 45th of the 46 traffic fatalities in what has become a unprecedented year on the roads. With a month and a half left in the year, the city has already surpassed the record of traffic deaths set in 1986 by three.Giddings was heading north on South Nevada Avenue in a gray sedan and attempted to turn left onto Cimarron Street about 6:30 a.m. Friday. A silver SUV heading south on Nevada collided with the sedan in the intersection, police spokesman Lt. Howard Black said. Third pedestrian killed in southeast Colorado Springs intersection in two weeksGiddings was thrown from the car and killed.The woman driving the SUV and a young child in the passenger seat were hospitalized with serious but nonlife-threatening injuries. … [Read more...] about Man killed in T-bone crash southeast of downtown Colorado Springs identified
Self-driving cars will have to decide who should live and who should die. Here’s who humans would kill.
Carolyn Y. Johnson, The Washington Post Published 10:31 am PDT, Wednesday, October 24, 2018 Imagine this scenario: the brakes fail on a self-driving car as it hurtles toward a busy crosswalk. A homeless person and a criminal are crossing in front of the car. Two cats are in the opposing lane. Should the car swerve to mow down the cats or plow into two people? It's a relatively straightforward ethical dilemma, as moral quandaries go. And people overwhelmingly prefer to save human lives over animals, according to a massive new ethics study that asked people how a self-driving car should respond when faced with a variety of extreme trade-offs - dilemmas to which more than 2 million people responded. But what if the choice is between two elderly people and a pregnant woman? An athletic person or someone who is obese? Passengers vs. pedestrians? The study, published in Nature, identified a few preferences that were strongest: People opt to save people over pets, to spare the … [Read more...] about Self-driving cars will have to decide who should live and who should die. Here’s who humans would kill.