The truck driver has been charged with negligence and driving too fast.
Morgan Lake is in “considerable pain” after a tractor-trailer hit her car and sent it flying over the Bay Bridge.
The Bay Bridge—one of the world’s scariest spans—was closed last night and this morning when inspectors noticed unusual vertical motion.
Photo by dullshick. Good morning, D.C. After some beautiful weather this week, looks like we’re back to clouds and showers this weekend. Perhaps it’s time for a spring cleaning project, an afternoon catching up on your favorite TV show, or for the less ambitious: a nice nap. >> After last week’s news that the legislators have concerns about the safety of the Bay Bridge, this week’s news that tolls on the bridge will likely…
Photo by philliefan99.Good morning Washington. Hope you enjoyed the glory that was yesterday, it seems like today will be more cloudy with a chance of rain later today. Perhaps you can do all of the chores and errands today that you postponed because you were frolicking outside yesterday. >> Three people were injured at a car wash in Temple Hill, MD yesterday when an employee driving out of the car wash hit another car…
As you know, traffic on the bay bridge this weekend is going to be a bear this weekend. They’re performing emergency repairs after the tractor trailer accident a few weeks ago in which the driver that went through the guard rails and into the water passed away. As of 10:45 this morning, WTOP reports, the back up on the east-bound span is already a half-mile long. As more and more people try to get out…
Fun Fun Fun Fest 2007 Recap from Super!Alright! on Vimeo. Austinist attended a town hall meeting about proposed noise ordinances that could undermine the city’s future as the Live Music Capital of the World, and lamented the possible loss of Texas’s only feminist bookstore. Throughout the week, they interviewed a bunch of indie fashion designers and D-I-Y websites—Etsy, Ornamental Things, 31 Corn Lane, and Aorta Designs—for the upcoming Stitch Fashion Show. They also did…
>> Despite well-publicized problems at D.C. Schools, reading and math scores at 8th and 4th grade levels are both up in the District. [WaPo] >> Tonight is the second public meeting for the Fourteenth Street Transportation and Streetscape. 7-9 p.m. at the National City Christian Church at 5 Thomas Circle NW. [Logan Circle News] >> Westbound traffic on the Chesapeake Bay Bridge is closed while an ambulance takes an injured worker to the hospital. [AP…
There was very little else for Londonist to be concerned with when the threat of a Tube strike became a very unpleasant reality. The inconvenience was extreme: there aren’t many alternatives to the Tube in London despite the best efforts of the Londonist team to get everyone from A to B. Brighter news came in the form of the first ever female Yeoman Warder, or Beefeater as the position is more commonly known, and…
In college I took a number of atmopsheric sciences classes back when I thought I might like to become an environmental lobbyist or something like that. I had one rather bitter professor who liked to spend a lot of time complaining about how TV “meteorologists” don’t actually know anything about meteorology and are just washed up stand-up comics. I’m pretty sure he was talking about guys like this. The good news: this holiday weekend…
