The head of the upscale Italian fashion line Missoni, whose trademark is its zigzag pattern, is feared dead after his plane disappeared Friday off the coast of Venezuela, according to The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/world/europe/plane-carrying-italian-designer-lost-near-venezuela.html Vittorio Missoni, owner of the…
General Motors Co. said Friday that it is recalling more than 69,000 trucks and vans because of a defect that could let the vehicles roll off after they are parked, according to Reuters. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/04/us-gm-recall-idUSBRE9030HK20130104 The vehicles under the recall potentially…
Transocean Deepwater Inc. has agreed to pay a record $1.4 billion to settle charges stemming from its part in the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe, where 11 workers were killed and almost 5 million barrels of oil were dumped into the Gulf…
Three people were injured Wednesday when two semi trucks carrying logs collided in Minnesota near the Canadian border, according to Northlands News Center. http://www.northlandsnewscenter.com/news/iron-range/Three-Airlifted-to-Duluth-Following-Accident-with-Semi-Truck-185496412.html The trio of victims from the accident in International Falls, Minn., were airlifted to Essentia Health…
Three Georgia residents were killed Thursday in a crash on the New Jersey Turnpike involving a tractor-trailer, according to The Star-Ledger of Newark. http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2012/12/turnpike_accident_seriously_in.html Police are investigating the cause of the accident in Mount Laurel, where a tractor-trailer struck the…
Six men died in Jamestown, N.D., Wednesday when their pickup truck hit an icy patch on Interstate 94, went out of control and was hit by a semi, according to The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/384444/group/homepage/ The pickup truck was traveling…
Toyota Motor North America is seeking to settle a class-action suit, filed by car owners who allege that the Japanese automaker’s vehicles would suddenly accelerate, for $1.1 billion, the company announced Wednesday. http://www2.toyota.co.jp/en/news/12/12/1227.html According to Reuters, court filings said that…
Here’s another gas can explosion — a so-called “flashback” — to add to the list, with this one injuring six children in Texas on Christmas Eve, according to the Associated Press. http://news.yahoo.com/6-children-hurt-gas-explodes-texas-210823755.html# Apparently the kids were playing near an open…
An 18-wheel tractor-trailer crashed into several cars Wednesday afternoon on Long Island, starting a chain reaction of multiple-vehicle accidents that left one woman dead and 33 others injured, according to the Associated Press. http://online.wsj.com/article/AP7ca73b7a12f2407b8637b6921f6c7c7e.html About 35 vehicles ended up in…
Last year deaths from traffic accidents involving large trucks, as well as bicyclists, jumped dramatically, even as overall highway fatalities dove to their lowest level since 1949, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported Monday. http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/2012/New+NHTSA+Analysis+Shows+2011+Traffic+Fatalities+Declined+by+Nearly+Two+Percent In its analysis,…