Speed limits increase this spring on most of the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and at least one New Jersey lawmaker is eyeing the possibility of the same change here.
Traffic deaths were up 14 percent nationally in the first six months of this year and injuries were up by a third, according to data gathered by the National Safety Council.
Since 2013, there have been 11 fatalities on County Route 539 in Ocean County, a main corridor motorists use to travel from the Jersey Shore to Trenton.
BONNEY LAKE, Wash. (AP) -- A concrete slab fell from a construction site on a Washington state highway overpass on Monday, crushing a vehicle driving underneath the span and killing a young couple and their baby boy, police said.
PARSIPPANY, N.J. (AP) — State police say a truck driver died several hours after he was ejected from and run over by his own vehicle during a crash on a northern New Jersey highway.
BALTIMORE (AP) -- In a spectacular fall from grace, Maryland's second-highest ranking Episcopal leader and the first female bishop in her diocese was charged with drunken driving and manslaughter after fatally striking a cyclist in late December.
WOODBURY, N.J. (AP) -- New Jersey authorities say they won't file charges against a police officer who struck and killed a 10-year-old boy with his squad car.
BEAR, Del. (AP) -- A bus carrying dozens of people crashed and overturned in Delaware, leaving one woman dead and several other people injured, authorities said.