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Off-duty N.J. officer fatally struck pedestrian, put body in car, prosecutor says

A New Jersey police officer is accused of fatally striking a pedestrian, taking the man’s body home to discuss what to do, and then returning to the scene with the dead man in his back seat, a prosecutor said Wednesday.

Newark officer Louis Santiago, 25, his passenger, and his mother are charged in the Nov. 1 incident, acting Essex County Prosecutor Theodore Stephens II said in a written statement.

Santiago, who was off-duty, allegedly struck Damian Dymka, a 29-year-old nurse, while he was walking around 3 a.m. on the shoulder of the Garden State Parkway.

Neither Santiago nor his passenger,

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CAROLOGY: What was the world’s first car? – News

The car is one of the most influential inventions of all time. So where exactly did this genius idea come from? 

It’s widely known that Mercedes-Benz built the very first car, but what exactly went into building Karl Benz’s epic Patent Motorwagen?

Sam dives into this interesting story that brought the world the car. 

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Ayika married Kano nightclub owner found dead in car with side chick

A nightclub owner in Kano, Steve Ayika has been found dead with his girlfriend in a tinted car.

Police reportedly found the married man and father of two kids, in a compromising position, with the side chick, identified as Chiamaka Emmanuel.

The two were discovered early on 23 November, according to the Kano Police Command, with the car locked and phones switched off.

Steve Ayika

Some reports said the lady was due to get married in December to another man.

The Police in a statement on Thursday did not indicate the cause of death or whether there was any foul

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BBC.Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage.The app is not the only way to access the cars though, Stuart Masson, editor of The Car Expert website, told the BBC..5 days ago

BBC.Tesla drivers left unable to start their cars after outage.The app is not the only way to access the cars though, Stuart Masson,
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Five dead, 40 wounded as car hits Wisconsin Christmas parade | News

A car has ploughed through a Christmas parade in the US state of Wisconsin, killing five and injuring at least 40 people, according to the City of Waukesha.

The incident occurred at around 4:39pm (22:39 GMT) on Sunday in Waukesha, about 32 kilometres (20 miles) west of Milwaukee.

Waukesha Mayor Shawn Reilly told reporters the city had “faced horror and tragedy in what should have been a community celebration”.

“I’m deeply saddened to know that so many in our community went to the parade but ended up dealing with injury and heartache,” Reilly said.

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Coscharis Motors, Sterling Bank partner on vehicle financing | The Guardian Nigeria News

Coscharis Motors has partnered Sterling Bank Plc to onboard its vehicles on the bank’s non-Interest banking platform- AltDrive.

The objective is to ease the road to ownership via e-commerce transactions which can be self-funded or financed by the bank.

General Manager, Marketing and Corporate Communications, Coscharis Group, Abiona Babarinde, said the idea is to provide customers an online retail marketplace that gives customers a one-stop boutique to access and purchase any vehicular brand sold by Coscharis Motors either through self-funding or credit finance from Sterling Bank.

According to Babarinde, the primary objective of this collaboration is to provide customers an

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Champion Race Car Driver, Top Instructor Bob Bondurant Dies | Business News

PARADISE VALLEY, Ariz. (AP) — Bob Bondurant, a former champion race car driver who opened a high-performance driving school in 1968 and taught numerous A-list actors for their movie roles, has died. He was 88.

According to his family and the Bondurant Racing School website, Bondurant died Friday in the Phoenix suburb of Paradise Valley. No cause of death was released.

Bondurant taught stunt driving, competition driving, police pursuit driving, evasive driving for chauffeurs and bodyguards, plus other skills, according to the website. His school has had over 500,000 graduates, it said.

Among the celebrities Bondurant instructed in road course

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Sao Paulo GP: Lewis Hamilton under investigation for alleged car infringement – Max Verstappen summoned too

Grid penalty could be coming Lewis Hamilton’s way after car is referred to stewards for possible DRS infringement during a qualifying session he topped; Decision to be made on Saturday; But Verstappen also summoned over potential parc ferme breach

Last Updated: 13/11/21 5:26pm

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Is this the reason Max Verstappen has been summoned to stewards in Brazil? Footage appears to show the championship leader touching the rear wing of Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes in parc ferme.

Is this the reason Max Verstappen has been summoned to

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Honolulu car wreck: Sedan sideswipes several cars and sends sparks flying at midnight, video shows

Residents of Honolulu’s idyllic Waikiki neighborhood were woken up by a loud car crash and alarms shortly after midnight in the early hours of Sunday morning. 

Video captured by KITN shows a white sedan sideswiping several cars and sending sparks flying before finally coming to a stop with police on its tail. 

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Jennifer Walsh, who lives on the 26th floor of a building overlooking the crash site, said that her whole building was woken up by an initial wreck right after midnight. 

“He left the scene immediately, only to return to clip about eight

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