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FULL SPEED AHEAD Got a penchant for speeding? Some help is on the way. The National Motorist Association is offering to pay your tickets for you--for a small fee. Members pay a minimum of $5 a month and get $100 worth of fines paid by the NMA. If you tend to garner traffic fines or find parking tickets piling up on your windshield, then for $50 you can receive $1,000 of coverage. Plus, the NMA is so open-minded it will even cover drunk-driving fines. But be careful: that doesn't give you license to drive drunk...
Governor Gray Davis announced an end to racial profiling in the State of California last week. Davis signed a bill that will require police officers to give motorists stopped without charge a business card if the motorist requests one, and require police officers to attend more diversity training. If this doesn't sound like an end to racial profiling to you, you're right. Davis actually vetoed a bill that would have required police officers to record the race of every motorist pulled over in routine traffic stops. While this measure wouldn't have ended racial profiling either, it would...
...also an irresistible source for lawsuits. Last week GWYNETH PALTROW was sued by a couple who claim they sustained injuries when the actress allegedly smacked her car into theirs a year ago in Los Angeles. This follows a suit filed earlier this year against HALLE BERRY by a motorist with whom she collided in February and one filed in March against CATHERINE ZETA-JONES by a former friend who says she was hurt when The Mask of Zorro star crashed the car in which they were driving. If there's a lesson here, it's that Julia Roberts should probably...
...Reward offered for the capture of a motorist who threw a bichon frise dog into oncoming traffic...
...Average motorist, hours in traffic per year...