Video: Diabetic condition leads to wild snowy ride for Kia owner

Filed under: Videos The blurry screencap shown above is of a driver in morning traffic on Pennsylvania’s I-81, in mid-jump, hurtling down the snowy median. The man who captured the video, Shawn Lucas, thought the driver was trying to evade police, but it turns out the 61-year-old woman behind the wheel of the Kia was likely having a diabetic emergency. Before this video was taken, she had driven onto and stopped on the median, and other drivers pulled over to play Good Samaritan and push her off. While they were pushing, she sped off again, which is when Lucas began to record her (he apparently was unaware of the driver’s medical condition).

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Video: Diabetic condition leads to wild snowy ride for Kia owner

Video: Why are snowy roads like these never closed?

Filed under: Etc. , Safety , Videos Another winter naturally means more videos of snowy carnage, as Mother Nature teams up with an inclined road to befuddle even those drivers who are used to such conditions. This time the location is Bountiful, Utah on January 21, where a slick bit of downhill becomes an automotive Slip-n-Slide.

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First Drive: 2012 Mercedes-Benz ML63 AMG [w/video]

Filed under: Performance , SUV , Mercedes-Benz , First Drives How The World’s Most Powerful Sport Utility Vehicle Fails At Being Absurd Twenty years ago, sport utility vehicles were trucks. They had big, heavy frames, solid axles and low-range four-wheel drive. At best, they would accelerate to 60 miles per hour in under nine seconds and top out just over 100 mph. “Handling” simply meant that they could keep all four wheels firmly planted while circling an onramp

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Video: How Seattle buses get up snowy hills

Filed under: Etc. , Government/Legal , Videos Seattle has taken a white, snowy beating of late, but the city has made it a point to keep its bus services running. Not being the flattest city on record, Seattle’s steeper inclines can present a challenge to municipal vehicles.

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2013 BMW 1-Series GT caught testing front-wheel-drive system

The winter testing season is in top gear, the prototypes are coming thick and fast. The latest of these is the new 2013 BMW 1-series GT which has been caught here testing in the snow alongside a Mini prototype.

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Report: PSA: Some states now using school bus-mounted traffic cameras

Filed under: Government/Legal , Safety , Technology City councils and state legislatures across the country are debating and passing initiatives to put traffic cameras on school buses . Rick Gresham, transportation director for the Cobb County school district in Georgia, told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that 1,100 motorists pass his school buses when the stop sign paddle is out every single day. The state of Maryland reported 7,200 such incidents in one day last year. For all the folks who want to see that bus-riding children get to class and home safely, that’s a problem

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