The New York Department of Motor Vehicles is all about helping drivers keep their license and registration current. They operate dozens of offices around the state as well as a fully equipped web site for people who want to avoid long lines and take care of business online. Not only that, but the NY DMV will let you sign up for email alerts so you know BEFORE your license or registration expires and can take care of that online.
Department of motor vehicle offices around the country have been turning to technology to help them improve service for their customers. Whether it is through the use of free standing kiosks or an easy-to-use web interface, technology has had a seriously positive impact on DMV offices every where.
Drivers can now use the Web to renew their driver’s license, register their vehicle, renew their license plates, even access driving records, all from the relatively calm and quiet peacefulness of your living room.
Of course all this great use technology is nothing new to us. We have been offering our New York defensive driving course online for years. We help drivers become better drivers, keep points off their driver’s license and keep their insurance premiums lower.
A western New York driver who struck and killed a girl waiting at a bus stop was sentenced to probation last week after pleading guilty in March to reckless driving. Radames Candelaria, of Buffalo, told police he was exhausted from a long shift at work and nodded off at the wheel. His SUV drifted off the road and struck and killed 18-year-old Ashley Creighton as she waited for a bus.
Marion Williams, 59, of Roosevelt, Long Island, has had his New York state driver’s license suspended no fewer than 201 times. If that isn’t enough to shock you perhaps the fact that police recently arrested while he was driving. On a suspended license. In a vehicle with a busted tail light.
And the winner of the award for longest daily commute goes to….every New York driver who commutes.
Sonya O’Hara, 33, of Fulton, was just driving along Route 48 just outside Syracuse early Monday morning when she did the unexpected: she collided with a horse standing in the middle of the road.
May and June are a busy time for deer in New York State. Since Spring has finally arrived the deer are out in force. Young deer are getting their first taste of fresh grass, young does are looking for mates, and bucks are out doing the same thing. It’s practically a deer party in every little bit of woods and across fields in the greenest part of the state.
This has not been a good year for New York police officers, more than a half dozen of whom have been busted for driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol. 
New York Police have identified a driver they say was responsible for driving a car which struck and killed a 4-year-old girl 45 years ago.
If you live drive in New York, whether for work or play or because you absolutely can’t find any way to avoid it, then you know just how difficult it is to find a place to park. And once you do find a parking space you have to fumble with the change to feed the meter. 
New York was one of the last state’s to enact a ‘Move Over’ law which required drivers to slow down and move to an outside lane when approaching a stopped police or emergency vehicle providing assistance or working on the side of the road. The law was expanded a couple years ago to include anyone stopped along the side of the road providing assistance or working, as long as they have emergency lights flashing.
Police in Queens, New York, are charging a man with driving without a license after he struck a nearby church and drove straight through a wall. Fortunately, the accident happened around 3am and the church was empty at the time.
According to a recent report by the 
If you thought you saw more police patrols on the roads today you weren’t dreaming. In fact, New York State Police and municipal agencies across the state announced they are increasing patrols this week focused primarily on speeders and those drivers ignoring the state’s “Move Over” law designed to keep emergency workers safe on the roadside.
Police in upstate New York have found themselves defending their tactics against drivers of so-called illegal motorcycles.
A New York county judge has ruled that a driver who is exhibiting safe driving behaviors should not and can not be a reason to make police officers suspicious. In other words, 
Under a tentative budget deal approved last week the first offense fine for texting while driving will increase to $50 in New York State. Other parts of the bill call for repeat offenders to pay as much as $400 for violating the law.
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The New York Department of Transportation recently conducted a 
Two New York police officers were arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol this past week. These were just latest in a recent string of police officers arrested for driving drunk.
When police stopped and questioned a man who was driving the wrong way down a one-way street they quickly discovered two things: first, that the driver, Stephen F. Ballinger, was drunk, and second, that he had no idea where he was or that he had barely avoided a collision with a police vehicle.
We’ve all done at one time or another: grabbed a beer or two, fired up the tractor, and started cutting the grass. The next thing you know you’re mowing through your wife’s vegetable garden and taking out garden gnomes left, right and center. That’s when you know you’ve had a few too many and should save the rest of the lawn mowing until tomorrow, when you’ve sobered up.
You might think police are only looking for drunk drivers during New Year’s Eve and after the Super Bowl, but you’d be wrong. Police are savvy drunk driver spotters–they know when people are likely to putting away a few too many beers and might be tempted to climb behind the wheel when they would be better off calling a cab.
When driving analysts say New York driving is the ‘worst’ in the nation, they are not referring to the way people drive. They are talking about the act of driving itself and saying that driving in New York is just a horrible thing to do.
You might think that an empty parking space, even if it’s marked by a “disabled parking only” sign, is fair game. You might only need to park there a moment; be rushing inside the store to drop something off or pick something up. But if you park in a parking space reserved for disabled parking only you risk a hefty fine from parking enforcement or police as well as putting someone who is disabled at risk of injury.
New York state remains one of the few states in the U.S. which requires all children under the age of 8 to use a child safety restraint system while driving in a vehicle. This law applies to all children, regardless of their height, weight or general size.
Texting and driving can be a serious, even deadly distraction for experienced drivers. For teens drivers, lacking the experience and training of someone who has been driving for a few years, texting behind the wheel is the quickest way to end up dead.
Back-to-back collisions involving pedestrians and motor vehicles last week have forced Albany police to re-examine their enforcement pedestrian safety standards and remind motorists to yield the right-of-way to people walking.
The current data collection systems used by Progressive and ALL state to monitor how certain drivers are driving are not able to collect data on where these drivers are driving, no matter what you might have heard. They are data collection devices only, not GPS systems.
In a state which has some of the most congested roadways in the country; the longest worker commute by road in the country; and millions of interstate and intra-state road visitors, common sense rules of the road in New York are just as important as the laws and legal limitations.
You may or may not be aware of the recent bitter online dispute between Elon Musk, owner of Tesla Motor Company and the New York Times. Here’s the brief:
Add Ithaca, New York, to the cities in America that are showing zero tolerance for distracted driving, Ithaca police announced this week they are starting a month long campaign focused almost exclusively on finding and fining drivers who are violating the state’s hands-free devices law.
An 87 year old man was issued more than a few tickets after driving the wrong way on the Taconic State Parkway this week. Police say the man drove the wrong way, against the flow of traffic, for at least three miles. Other drivers fortunately saw him coming and were able to avoid his vehicle, but they were forced off the road. 
DUI offenses together. In essence, this would mean that that someone with a DUI on their driving record would also find the same record on their boating license.
According to the Urban Mobility Report put together by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute shows that drivers in the Newark, New Jersey, and New York areas, suffer from the fourth worst traffic congestion in the nation.
Don’t look now, but New York State driver’s licenses are going back to the future-back to the days when all photos were in black & white.
In the southern part of New York state, Nassau County, the main road is the Southern State Parkway. The SSP is Long Island’s busiest road and as such it sees more than its fair share of deadly and dangerous vehicle collisions.
