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A report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) says there were more traffic deaths in 2020 than any other year since 2007, as the pandemic changed the way we drive – and made many roads more dangerous.

A cow and an alligator caused traffic delays on Wednesday during separate incidents in which the animals took themselves for a spin on Houston area roadways.

Several lanes were closed for hours Tuesday morning after a man was killed in a hit and run on Interstate 93.

The car plunged off a Milwaukee, Wis., overpass and hit another ramp below before landing.

About 75 calves caused a traffic jam in LaPorte County, Indiana, as they barreled down a busy highway.

The British government has gone against the recommendations of planning officials when it approved controversial plans for a tunnel to be built near the prehistoric monument of Stonehenge in southern England.

An off-duty Nevada state trooper was dressed as a “Star Wars” stormtrooper when she stopped a suspected drunken driver who had entered a Las Vegas freeway driving in the wrong direction.

Starting this month, highway exit signs will begin changing from their current sequential numbers to mileage-based system in Massachusetts.

Police around the country are reporting that as roads and highways emptied during the pandemic, some drivers took advantage by pushing well past the speed limit.

An early-morning crash in Brockton, Massachusetts, has left two people dead, and a third person critically injured, authorities said. The crash, involving multiple vehicles on Reynolds Memorial Highway, happened around 3:10 a.m., according to local police and prosecutors. A Volkswagen Jetta being driven by a 30-year-old woman in the wrong direction on the highway caused the crash, according to a…

Motor vehicle fatalities surged by 23.5 percent in May, as drivers took advantage of open roads to push to autobahn speeds, a situation made easier by the fact that authorities in many communities were pulling back on enforcement, in part, to avoid risking the possibility of their officers becoming exposed to the coronavirus.

A car crash involving two tractor-trailers in Revere, Massachusetts is snarling traffic for the morning commute Wednesday. The crash was reported on Route 1A near Boardman Street, where the two tractor-trailers became stuck on the road. The incident happened near Suffolk Downs.

The large fire that burned for several days at a Southeast Texas petrochemicals storage facility and sent a plume of pitch-black smoke thousands of feet into the atmosphere has been extinguished, plant officials say.

A man found dead along Route 2 in East Hartford early Tuesday morning died from gunshot wounds to the head and torso and his death is a homicide, according to the office of the chief medical examiner.

A Connecticut State Trooper is recovering after getting injured in a crash in Hartford on Saturday night.

Authorities are looking for $293,000 in missing cash after an armored truck rained money onto a New Jersey highway Thursday morning, causing two crashes as drivers attempted to collect the cash scattered across several lanes.

An armored truck rained money onto a New Jersey highway Thursday morning, causing several crashes as drivers attempted to collect the cash scattered across several lanes.

Police say a New Hampshire man has died after his car went off a Massachusetts highway and into a body of water. State police responded to Route 3 southbound in Chelmsford at about 5 p.m. Sunday after getting a report about a single-vehicle crash.

The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife is reminding motorists to watch out for moose on the state’s roadways this time of year.

A dog could not resist being lured away from a busy Massachusetts highway by a teddy bear.