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How to achieve good vision while driving during a heavy downpour. We are not sure why it is so effective; just try this method when it rains heavily. This method was told by a Police friend who had experienced and confirmed it. It is useful...even driving at night. Most of the motorists would turn on HIGH or FASTEST SPEED of the wipers during heavy downpour, yet the visibility in front of the windshield is still bad...... In the event you face such a situation, just try your SUN GLASSES (any model will do), and miracle! All of a sudden, your...

Family survives deer landing inside SUVApril 01, 2009 COEYMANS, N.Y. (AP) -- Five people riding in an SUV escaped with minor cuts and scratches after a deer hurtled through their windshield and landed in the vehicle's cargo area. Heather Sherman says she and her boyfriend, her two daughters and her mother were driving Saturday night on Route 32 in the town of Coeymans (KWEE'-mihnz) when an oncoming car hit the deer, sending it into their windshield. Sherman says she and her boyfriend were covered in blood after the impact. They pulled over, and when she went to the back of...

The driver was sober. The bird he hit may have been under the influence. A California brown pelican flew through the windshield of a motorist on the Pacific Coast Highway in Orange County Thursday, and wildlife officials said the bird was probably intoxicated by a chemical in the water. Though toxicology tests take several weeks, the odd bird behavior was likely the result of poisoning from domoic acid, which has been found in the ocean in the area, said Lisa Birkle, assistant wildlife director at the Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center in Huntington Beach. Birds can be poisoned through eating...

Bishop Knew Police Were Looking for Car When He Sought Windshield Repair By Anabelle Garay Associated Press Writer Published: Feb 10, 2004 PHOENIX (AP) - Bishop Thomas O'Brien conceded during his hit-and-run trial Tuesday that he asked about getting his windshield fixed even though he knew police were investigating whether the car had been involved in a deadly accident. "I was interested in getting the windshield fixed at some time," the Roman Catholic clergyman said in his second day on the witness stand. "There is no way I would have gotten that windshield fixed that day." A diocesan secretary testified...

Student Whose Father Died in Winshield Killing Gets Scholarship From Death-Row Inmate DALLAS Oct. 23 — A college student whose father was hit by a car and left to die in the windshield then forgave the woman who did it was awarded a $10,000 scholarship raised by death-row inmates. The money for Brandon Biggs, 20, was raised through donations and subscriptions to "Compassion," a bimonthly newsletter written by the nation's death-row inmates and a project of the Roman Catholic church's peace and justice committee. "We want to debunk the myth that death-row inmates are subhuman monsters needing to be killed,"...

<p>Alitalia Flight 610 was over the Atlantic on its Rome-to-New York flight last July when the Boeing 777 seemed to shudder. Passengers smelled smoke.</p><p>The cabin crew ran up to the flight deck as passengers screamed, said Bruce Northrup, a New York City banker returning from a wedding with his wife and 15-year-old son. "People were yelling, `Tell us what's going on,"' he said in an interview with The Associated Press.</p>

MONTREAL - Quebec police say a drunk driver hit a group of three men and continued driving for an hour with the body of an 18-year-old man stuck in the windshield of his car. Nicholas Fortin and two friends were struck by a car as they were leaving a bar in Ste-Adele, north of Montreal, early Saturday morning. People outside the bar rushed to help the two injured men at the side of the road, unaware that a third person had been carried away by the fleeing car. Police arrested a driver 50 minutes later, with the victim still lodged...

A woman who claims she was under the influence of drugs and alcohol hit a homeless man with her car, continued driving home, parked her car in her garage, and let him slowly bleed to death. The woman was a medical assistant and visited with him in her garage from time to time as he slowly died. After he died she dumped him in a park. She has admitted her role in dumping him after two friends admitted their part in the crime. The man's son described his father as a caring person who lost his truck, apartment, and job...