Street Sign Fails To Yield To Heather Locklear, Police Say

Police have ticketed actress Heather Locklear for a weekend accident in which a car hit a street sign near her Thousand Oaks, California home.

A neighbor reported the crash 16 hours after hearing it, but police say a surveillance camera shows Locklear's car passing by at the time and debris at the scene has been tied to her vehicle.

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Jalopnik Calls BS On CNN's TSB

One of the best things about new media is that we acknowledge the existence and work of others in the same field and help it reach a wider audience. In radio and TV, where I began my career (and still work), the "other guys" are never mentioned, unless it's in connection with videotape of one of their reporters and a barnyard animal dressed in the outfit on page 38 of the Victoria's Secret catalog.

Well, Jalopnik scores again...taking dead aim at CNN's story about a 2002 Technical Service Bulletin (TSB) that purports to show Toyota's known about electronic causes of unintended acceleration in its vehicles for eight years.

I've been a Jalopnik reader and fan for a lot of years (the Samuel L. Jackson Maybach piece still has me laughing three-plus years later)...reporting like Matt Hardigree's reinforces that.

Full story here.

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Study: New Airbags Less Protection For Belted Drivers Than Old Airbags

Most interesting: Passengers, belted or unbelted, do better with the new bags...as do unbelted drivers.

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