Police in a small German town were stumped when their speed trap camera went off clocking a vehicle doing 30kph in a 20kph zone.
The photo, taken on a clear day at 10am, showed no object, according to German media reports.
But on closer examination, police in the town of Zweibrücken, in the south west, spotted a tiny airborne object – a green ring-necked parakeet – in mid-flight.
“After close visual inspection of the photo taken at the scene we solved the puzzle,” the Rhineland Palatinate police sa
A high-performance Lamborghini Huracan car appeared for sale in New Zealand recently at the decidedly attractive price of US$1.00. Normally costing $500,000, the car was knocked down in price to sell as it had suffered extensive damage in a single vehicle crash. Quite how the vehicle, which can accelerate from 0-100km/h in less than 3.5 seconds and has a top speed of over 320km/h (200mph), was damaged is unclear, although it is unlikely to have been due to overly careful driving. Replacement parts for a Lam
A leading WIM system manufacturer is playing a key role in efforts to reduce the number of overloaded trucks costing developing economies around the world billions of dollars in accidents and damage to roads, while another company has won a major contract in South America. Guy Woodford reports. The prevalence of overloaded trucks on the road networks of developing countries and the accidents and structural damage they cause wastes valuable, limited resources in some of the world’s poorest economies, diverti
