Race car driver Danica Patrick is one of the most famous women in all of sports. These pictures are proof that she’s also one of the hottest women in the field of professional athletics....
This is the moment a car burst into flames and exploded into a massive fireball after a collision between two drivers during a NASCAR race. Racer Martin Truex Jr had took off for the Sprint Cup finale at the Homestead-Miami Speedway track when his car appeared to collide with one being driven by Carl Edwards. The crash caused...
A woman was trapped under a double-decker bus earlier today after it mounted the pavement while trying to avoid a car crash. File photo dated 09/11/16 of the scene after a tram overturned in Croydon, south London, as Transport for London has offered to pay for the funerals of the seven people killed in the tram crash. ...
At least 13 people have been killed in two car bomb attacks near an entrance to the airport in Mogadishu, Somali police say. Thick smoke could be seen rising from the area, where there is also a base for African Union (AU) peacekeepers. Local journalists said one of the bombs was detonated by a suicide attacker near a...
Police in Sydney have raided the home of a man who set his car on fire and rammed it into the gate of a police station car park. Peter Zhurawel, a 61-year-old Czech national, is under guard in hospital with serious burns. Australian authorities say the man has a history of mental health problems and ruled out links to...
On Wednesday morning, prominent journalist Pavlo Sheremet died as the car he drove exploded a few dozen meters from his house. It happened at the corner of Bohdan Khmelnytskyi and Ivan Franko Streets in front of the McDonald's restaurant. This car belonged to Olena Prytula, the owner of Ukrainska Pravda, while she was not...
Anton Yelchin, the Russian-born actor who played Chekov in the new Star Trek films, has been killed by his own car at his home in Los Angeles, police say. It struck him after rolling backwards down the steep drive at his Studio City home, pinning him against a brick postbox pillar and a security fence. He died shortly after...
Priced at a cool £1m, 'the world's first supercar' is preparing for an encore. English anthropologist Sir Edward Tylor, after studying the behavior of ancient humans, codified the notion of animism: a belief that objects other than humans have souls. Animism practitioners and Tylor never imagined cars in the...
US car-hailing company Uber has joined the race for driverless car technology, confirming it is testing a vehicle on the streets of Pittsburgh. The company said in a statement it had outfitted a Ford Fusion with radar, laser scanners and cameras. Uber's project is being carried out in partnership with Pittsburgh's...
Two car bomb blasts are reported to have rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, just hours after an attack on a market left 64 people dead. Police sources told the Reuters news agency that at least 15 people had been killed in the northern Kadhimiya area and seven others in the city's west. A car bomb was also used in the...
HACKERS are making off with millions of pounds worth of luxury cars as keyless 4x4s prove an easy target. And car crime in Britain has jumped by eight per cent in just a year as 81,000 vehicles were stolen from their owners last year. Forget hotwiring or tampering, new age criminals are now hacking into security systems as well...
Rickey Smith, a Top 10 finalist from Season 2 of American Idol, was killed early Friday on a highway in Oklahoma City when his car was struck by a wrong-way driver. He was 36. Smith was eastbound on Interstate 240 south of the city shortly after 3 a.m., when his Honda Accord was hit head-on by a pickup truck that was westbound...