A crane driver is accused of driving drunk and crashing into several cars on Long Island, and a police officer jumped onto the moving vehicle to stop the carnage.

In a 2017 report titled “Drones: Reporting for Work,” Goldman Sachs estimated the addressable market opportunity for drones globally between 2016 and 2020 to be $100 billion, of which the insurance claims drone market was estimated to be $1.4 billion.

The Albuquerque, N.M. metropolitan statistical area (MSA) repeats as having the highest per capita auto theft rate in 2017, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s (NICB) latest Hot Spots report.

Auto insurers are in the middle of a perfect storm. Performance is suffering as more sophisticated vehicles are proving costlier to repair. Rate increases, designed to help fund innovation and bring combined ratios closer to 100, will be tough for consumers to absorb when we consider inflation-adjusted wage growth has barely hit double digits in the last 40 years.

The call that came into a GEICO auto insurance claims department seemed routine: A Lexus GS350 was involved in a fender bender with a Chrysler 320 in North Miami-Dade. Within days, adjusters from a team that covers the area reported inspecting the Lexus and authorizing a series of payments totaling over $16,000.

Count Paul Snyder among those who believe distraction, more than vehicles themselves, is responsible for the increase in pedestrian fatalities.

The powerful thunderstorm that rumbled through Sheridan County in northeastern Montana late Monday night did extensive damage and eventually developed into an EF-2 tornado that caused injuries to more than two dozen people in North Dakota.

Firefighters are investigating an overnight fire in a rental car lot at Salt Lake City International Airport as arson. It happened around 12:30 a.m. in a small auto lot Hertz uses to maintain its vehicles.

Indiana County Coroner Jerry Overman has identified a 52-year-old woman from Commodore who was killed Thursday afternoon when a car crashed into two gas pumps and an Indiana County service station, and the vehicle and building burst into flames.

Florida Property & Casualty Association, an association of Florida-based home insurers, is disputing claims made by Weiss Ratings, including that, "Many Florida homeowners are still waiting for their insurance claims to come through after a severe hurricane season last year."

GEICO expects supplements given its estimates are only based upon the exterior of a vehicle, an adjuster supervisor told a Missouri small-claims court last week.

Shiny new pickups are sitting on concrete blocks at the Patriot GMC Hyundai dealership while Bartlesville police investigate the theft of 76 wheels and tires taken from the vehicles at the business over the weekend.

Keith Ness was remarkably pragmatic for someone whose place of employment suffered millions of dollars in losses from Friday’s hail storm. “It’s Mother Nature. You can’t do nothing about it,” said Ness, as he and other Jack’s Campers employees assessed extensive damage to about 500 travel trailers and motorhomes on Jack’s soggy lot Saturday morning.

Authorities say they anticipate a monthslong cleanup effort following historic flooding in Des Moines, Iowa, CBS affiliate KCCI-TV reports. A series of thunderstorms slammed the Des Moines metro area Saturday evening.

With summer officially upon us, Americans are flocking to the great outdoors. Campgrounds are filled with the warm buzz of families and friends enjoying the best nature has to offer, and outdoor enthusiasts are enjoying their favorite sporting pursuits like hunting, fishing and shooting.