40 November 2014 Better Roads
By Tina Grady Barbaccia
The Last Word
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THE ROADOLOGIST BLOG
Do you drive one of the 20 'most-ticketed cars' in
the United States?
When I fi rst read this list the CNN Money online section, I was pretty sure that my minivan
(which is far from new and has certainly seen better days and cleaner times) didn't make
the list.
After going through the list, yep, I was right. I've had a lead foot at times, but it's good to
have it reconfi rmed that I'm offi cially not being targeted for tickets.
If you have a cooler vehicle than mine, check to see if you're on the list. (Hey, my swagger wagon – check out this funny video
about swagger wagons at betterroads.com/swagger-wagon – serves its purpose, but I'm the fi rst to admit, it doesn't top the list of cool
cars!),
The Subaru WRX is one of these cars. According to the CNN Money report, 33.6 percent of owners said they had recently received
a ticket when owners of this vehicle were contacted by the news agency for a quote. The Pontiac GTO is also listed. The CNN Money
report notes that 32.7 percent of these owners say they have recently been ticketed when they were asked for a quote.
Here is a look at the other 18 most-ticketed cars: (Is your car listed?)
• Scion FR-S
• Toyota Supra
• Subaru Tribeca
• Volkswagen Rabbit
• Mercury Topaz
• Scion tC
• Toyota FJ Cruiser
• Mazda2
• Hyundai Veloster
• Volkswagen GTI
• Suzuki Reno
• Scion xA
• Pontiac G8
• MINI Cooper S Countryman
• Mitsubishi 3000GT
• Saturn Aura
• Infi niti Q56/Q80
• Toyota Prius c
It looks like I'm pretty safe driving my minivan! For more about each of these cars and ticketing stats, go to http://money.cnn.com/
gallery/autos/2014/10/01/ticket-magnets. For the Better Roads report, go to betterroads.com/do-you-drive-one-of-the-20-most-ticketed-cars-in-the-unit-
ed-states.
A giant pothole swallows up a school bus tire
Our nation's roads are becoming so bad that potholes are apparently starting to look more like sinkholes. At least that was the
case with a pothole in Detroit that was big enough to swallow a bus wheel, according to an online report from Detroit's WDIV/
ClickonDetroit.com (http://tinyurl.com/School-bus-Detroit).
The tire on a Detroit Public Schools' First Student bus became stuck in a pothole when dropping off a student, and it took a
tow truck to pull the bus out of the pothole.
Luckily, according to the report, no one was hurt and another bus came to take the rest of the students home.
As a mom of two young boys who take a bus to school every day, I fi nally stopped worrying about having someone else take
the boys to school.
Now, instead of worry about the bus getting into an accident or someone hurting my kids on the bus, I have to worry about it
getting stuck in a pothole.
Hmm. I think that Congress just might fi nd a way to fund a new highway bill (a reasonable
one, not a pitifully funded one) if their kids were suddenly stuck on a school bus
because of bad road conditions.
For photos of the bus stuck in the giant pothole, go to http://tinyurl.com/school-bus-
pothole-pics. For the full report, go to betterroads.com/a-giant-pothole-swallows-up-a-school-bus-tire.
