Mobile phone use, while driving, slows down vehicular speed by about 2 miles per hour, according to a new study released by David Strayer, a psychology professor at the University of Utah. "The distracted driver tends to drive slower and have delayed reactions," Strayer found. "People kind of get stuck behind that person and it makes everyone pay the price of that distracted driver. "

A car passenger was apprehended by police officials for pulling out a toy gun and aiming it at the head of the driver friend, causing panic. The incident occurred during the late afternoon on Interstate 70. The man, identified as 23-year old college student Justin Carman who, while driving back with three other friends from a football game, apparently took out the toy gun from his pocket and upon aiming it at the head of the driver.

A Salinas sobriety checkpoint is reportedly scheduled to give away turkeys on Tuesday to drivers who pass the DUI test. The Salinas Police Department, in league with the Safe Teens Empowerment Project in Salinas (STEPS), will be distributing from 150 to 300 turkeys to motorists who pass the sobriety test that will be given at the checkpoint.

Police were startled to find a 13-year old boy in the driver's seat of a car stuck in the mud at a local park. The father was sitting in the passenger's seat, and both seemed to be drunk. The boy's 41-year old father explained to the police that he let his son drive the vehicle, as he had too much to drink and was incapable of operating the truck.

A hungry, a 6-year old boy decided to have a bite at Applebee's last Tuesday. So the toddler took grabbed the car keys, put his booster seat from the back of his grandmother's car and placed it on the driver's seat, and started the engine.