Fifty people died in crashes involving drivers under the influence of drugs or alcohol over the extended New Year’s weekend, a jump from 40 deaths reported the same time the previous year, authorities said Wednesday.

More than 50 people were part of a pileup involving 32 vehicles — two of them semitrucks — just an hour after ringing in the new year in Austin.

Ford Motor Co (F.N) said Friday it is recalling 874,000 pickup trucks in North America with engine block heaters for fire risks. The second largest U.S. automaker said the recall covers some 2015-2019 Ford F-150 trucks, along with the 2017-2019 Ford F-250 Super Duty, F-350 Super Duty, F-450 Super Duty, and F-550 Super Duty pick-up trucks.

Two truck drivers died Wednesday in a predawn, chain-reaction pileup of five tractor-trailers on icy Interstate 90 between Alberton and Superior.

Ron Wells, a developer and architect whose decadeslong work in Spokane includes renovations of numerous historic buildings, was indicted Wednesday in federal court for allegedly staging a car crash in an attempt to defraud insurance companies.

Authorities say 30 to 40 vehicles were involved in a string of wrecks in heavy fog along an approximately 2-mile stretch of Interstate 37 in rural South Texas.

The sharing economy is a system in which individuals may rent their possessions or time to other individuals, often through an app or website. Although the term first appeared in the mid-2000s, New Economy Advisor April Rinne says that it didn’t become a household word until recently. Still, the sharing economy has caused radical change in a very short time.

Going beyond being an Airbnb for car-sharing, HyreCar now offers an innovative new insurance product that insures a vehicle on its platform even when it is not being rented out.

Money rained down on a New Jersey highway Thursday morning, leading to several crashes as motorists stopped and scrambled to pick up the cash.

Ford F-Series trucks once again topped the list of Canada’s most frequently stolen vehicles, according to the Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC).

Insurance claims from the recent spate of California wildfires, including one ranked as the most deadly and destructive in state history, have topped $9 billion and are expected to grow, the state insurance commissioner reported on Wednesday.

The snowstorm that pummeled southern states during the weekend has been blamed for at least three deaths in North Carolina and leaving nearly 70,000 in the dark, as residents prepare to face dangerous roads and plunging temperatures on Tuesday.

Firefighters die in a burning building. … A mother poisons her infant for life insurance. … A sober home plies addicts with drugs for bogus rehab claims. Welcome to the Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame, home of America’s nine most-brazen insurance scammers of last year.

North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper is strongly urging residents to stay off the road as a massive winter storm blankets parts of the Southeast with snow and ice.

Nobody likes when things don’t work the way they’re supposed to, especially when it’s the two-ton hunk of car parts sitting in your driveway.