Read more car accident stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/1149/car-accident.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorSun, 22 Nov 2009 16:25:04 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/71654/us-soccer-star-hospitalized-in-fatal-car-crash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagCharlie Davies, a starting forward on the US national soccer team, broke several bones and sustained a lacerated bladder in a car crash yesterday that killed another passenger. The driver, who was not identified, swerved into a guardrail outside of Washington, leaving the car "pretty much split in half," according...http://www.newser.com/story/71654/us-soccer-star-hospitalized-in-fatal-car-crash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 14 Oct 2009 0:03:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/70654/distracted-drivers-killed-5800-in-08.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagAccidents caused by distracted drivers killed at least 5,800 and injured another 515,000 last year, according to data pulled from police reports and presented today to Transportation Department conference on the issue. The actual figures may be significantly higher, say Transportation officials, since distraction is often hard to...http://www.newser.com/story/70654/distracted-drivers-killed-5800-in-08.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 30 Sep 2009 12:49:00 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68429/ny-wrong-way-driver-to-be-exhumed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe body of Diane Schuler will exhumed in a bid by her family to disprove findings that the 36-year-old was drunk when she drove her minivan the wrong way on a New York freeway last month, causing a crash that killed eight people, said the family's lawyer on Larry Kin...http://www.newser.com/story/68429/ny-wrong-way-driver-to-be-exhumed.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 02 Sep 2009 11:43:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/68295/toyota-accused-of-hiding-evidence-on-rollover-deaths.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA former top lawyer for Toyota says the company concealed evidence relating to hundreds of rollover accidents that caused death and injury, the Los Angeles Times reports. The attorney, who says he was forced to resign from the firm in 2007, has filed a lawsuit alleging that engineering data that...http://www.newser.com/story/68295/toyota-accused-of-hiding-evidence-on-rollover-deaths.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 01 Sep 2009 3:56:55 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/67298/13-year-old-runs-over-kills-father.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA 13-year-old Bronx boy accidentally killed his father last night while trying to park the family’s Porsche SUV, the New York Post reports. The family had just eaten at a restaurant, and waiters heard the boy ask if he could move the car. John Cedeno, 45, stood beside the open...http://www.newser.com/story/67298/13-year-old-runs-over-kills-father.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 19 Aug 2009 13:43:01 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66971/other-driver-blamed-for-phelps-crash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagPolice don't believe Michael Phelps was to blame for his car accident in Baltimore Thursday night but the swimmer will have to go to court for producing an invalid Michigan driver's license after the crash, the Baltimore Sun reports. The other driver, a 28-year-old woman who was slightly injured when...http://www.newser.com/story/66971/other-driver-blamed-for-phelps-crash.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSat, 15 Aug 2009 6:11:17 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/66877/phelps-unhurt-in-car-crash-other-driver-shaken-up.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMichael Phelps was uninjured after the car he was driving collided with another vehicle in Baltimore tonight. The female driver of a Honda Accord was "shaken up" and taken to a hospital as a precaution. Two passengers in Phelps' Cadillac Escalade were unhurt. A police spokesman says Phelps has been...http://www.newser.com/story/66877/phelps-unhurt-in-car-crash-other-driver-shaken-up.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 13 Aug 2009 23:31:29 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/62264/pattinson-grazed-by-cab-while-fleeing-fans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagDangerous work, this teenage heartthrob business. Twilight star Robert Pattinson got clipped by a cab outside a New York City bookstore while fleeing a horde of fans, reports People . Pattinson is fine: He walked away from the mishap, in which the cabbie reportedly grazed his hip before slamming on the...http://www.newser.com/story/62264/pattinson-grazed-by-cab-while-fleeing-fans.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 18 Jun 2009 19:03:37 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/61883/advocates-push-for-rear-seatbelt-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagHighway safety advocates are pushing for a federal transportation bill to include incentives for states to make safety belts mandatory for all passengers, but opponents say the move would set a precedent for the government to tell citizens what to do, USA Today reports. Though studies show that rear seatbelts...http://www.newser.com/story/61883/advocates-push-for-rear-seatbelt-laws.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 15 Jun 2009 9:50:01 CDT