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For those of you who’ve had your share of speeding tickets, just imagine putting your pedal to the metal, only to have your car’s accelerator top out at -- or below! -- the speed limit.

A new measure under consideration in New York City could really clamp down on repeat speeders with accelerator-restrictor technology ... particularly focusing on speeders cited on surface streets and in school zones. The city could end up mandating the accelerator restrictors to force chronic speeders to involuntarily slow down.

The devices are part of a pilot program known as Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA). Some use GPS data and maps to determine the correct speed depending on your car’s location. Some makes and models already have this technology installed as of a year ago. Vehicles that do not currently have ISA would have to be modified to add the technology.

Hit-and-runs usually involve vehicles ... but in Florida on Sunday, a boat made a quick getaway after crashing into a ferry, killing one person and injuring others, according to police.

The incident occurred Sunday night in the waters near the Clearwater Memorial Causeway Bridge in Clearwater, FL, where the recreational boat was passing by and collided with the ferry, which had 45 passengers on board, cops said.

Moments after impact, the recreational boat sailed off, leaving behind the badly damaged ferry and its occupants.

Eleven people are dead and several others are injured after a car plowed into a group of people at a street festival in Canada over the weekend.

Police in Vancouver say the vehicle barreled straight into a large crowd at a street festival around 8 PM on Saturday.

According to cops, a 30-year-old suspect was taken into custody at the scene. Police say the incident is not an act of terrorism.

Virginia Giuffre, who publicly accused convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and Prince Andrew of sexual abuse, has died by suicide.

The Western Australia Police Force tells TMZ officers responded to a call on Friday at 9:50 PM local time after a 41-year-old woman was located unresponsive at a residence in Neergabby.

Emergency first-aid was provided, but she could not be revived. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Tragedy for Purdue University and the Boilermakers' famous mascot ... it's been involved in a deadly crash in Indiana.

Purdue's mascot -- the Boilermaker Special -- was involved in an accident Thursday that claimed one life and put two people in the hospital ... according to multiple reports.

The Boilermaker Special looks like a locomotive, but it's actually a truck customized to look like a steam locomotive from the Victorian era.

Six police officers died in a plane crash in Thailand Friday -- and the harrowing incident was all caught on video.

Check it out ... the small plane is seen plunging out of the sky near the Thai beach town of Hua Hin, but as it nosedives into the ocean, the witness shuts off their camera, and we don't see the impact.

Other videos show first responders fishing a body out of the water, and aerial footage shot from another plane shows the wreckage in the water.

Skai Jackson's baby daddy Deondre Burgin is back in the slammer -- after cops say he was arrested in Kentucky on an outstanding misdemeanor warrant from Ohio.

According to law enforcement, Burgin was picked up at a gas station on April 17 in Kentucky when a Taylor Mill police officer recognized him from the National Crime Information Center database. We're told he's currently locked up on a $25K bond.

Authorities in Hamilton County, Ohio, had an outstanding warrant out for his arrest for failing to display a license plate on his vehicle in March ... and then failing to show up for his court date.

A juror in the 1996 Menendez brothers' murder trial says the shotgun-wielding brothers share the benefit of being famous and having white privilege ... as well as the support of one of the most recognizable faces in the world -- Kim Kardashian!

And this is why, the juror tells TMZ, Erik and Lyle Menendez could receive clemency and ultimately get released from a California prison ... after serving decades behind bars for shootings their parents, Jose and Kitty, to death in their Beverly Hills mansion in 1989.

The juror, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, tells TMZ ... freedom is certainly a possibility for the brothers given the fact that Erik and Lyle are "well-known, white-looking, or attractive," despite the fact that they are Latino.

A Catholic nursery school teacher in Italy ain't gettin' the unconditional love and forgiveness the Bible preaches ... 'cause parents of children at the school found out she made content for OnlyFans and got her fired.

Elena Maraga -- a 29-year-old woman working at a nursery school near Treviso, a town in Northern Italy -- was fired earlier this week, with the school claiming her adult content account "contrasts with the Catholic inspiration that guides the educational direction of the school."

This comes a few weeks after she was suspended from the school, when a student's father allegedly purchased photos from the account.

A massive wildfire in New Jersey has consumed over 8,500 acres in the state's famous Pine Barrens region ... forcing about 3,000 people to evacuate and shutting down a large stretch of the Garden State Parkway.

Stunning video shows intense flames from the Jones Road Wildfire soaring into the air behind a manufacturing center in Lacey Township as firefighters rush to get it under control. The center is one of 1,320 structures threatened, according to the New Jersey Forest Fire Service.

The roaring blaze shut down a sizable portion of the Garden State Parkway Tuesday evening during rush hour ... tripling commute times. The New York Times reports the embers jumped the parkway, sparking flames near the defunct Oyster Creek nuclear power plant -- though the buildings withstood the fire.

Jelly Roll is one step closer to getting his felon status dropped as he continues to distance himself from his troubled past.

The country singer -- who has been in the slammer more than three dozen times -- was endorsed for a pardon by the Tennessee Board of Parole on Tuesday following a 45-minute hearing.

He was present for the monumental meeting and seemed to be overjoyed after the vote was cast ... pictures show him hugging Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall. Hall shared the snaps on X, writing ... "A year ago, I wrote ⁦@GovBillLee asking for a full Pardon for Jason 'Jelly Roll' Deford…..today the Board unanimously recommended his Pardon. It’s now in the hands of our Governor."

A couple of identical twins from Australia are going viral for an interview they gave to a local news outlet covering an alleged armed carjacker ... because they're talking at the same time and saying the exact same things.

Ya gotta see the video ... Bridgette Powers and Paula Powers are totally on the same page as they recall how they and their mother found themselves in the middle of a scary incident on Steve Irwin Way in Queensland.

The twins have the same voice, the same cadence and the same thoughts ... and it's pretty wild to hear them talking in unison.

Aussie, Aussie, Aussie!!!

Pope Francis died from a stroke and a heart issue.

The Vatican released the official death certificate for Francis on Monday, and Vatican doctor Andrea Arcangeli says the Pope died as a result of a stroke and irreversible heart failure.

Francis' death certificate also reveals the Pope had been in a coma before his death on Monday morning. That's interesting because we saw the Pope the day before, on Easter Sunday, meeting briefly with Vice President J.D. Vance at the Vatican.

Another airplane flight, another scare -- this time with fire and thick smoke pouring out of a plane engine ... thankfully, while still on the tarmac.

The whole thing was caught on camera by stunned onlookers -- Delta Flight 1213, set to take off from Orlando International Airport en route to Atlanta Monday morning, went up in flames, with video showing an engine fire blazing.

Passengers were spotted sliding down the inflatable slides to safety as fire rescue crews rushed in to douse the fire.

New details have surfaced in the fatal police shooting of "The Real Housewives of Orange County" alum Lydia McLaughlin's brother ... police say he grabbed the cop's taser and assaulted the officer before getting shot during a traffic stop.

According to Newport Beach Police, Geoffrey Shyam Stirling "managed to remove the department-issued taser from the officer’s duty belt and attempted to deploy it multiple times against the officer" during the traffic stop Thursday in Orange County, CA. The department claims, "at that point, an officer-involved shooting occurred."

The PD went on to confirm what law enforcement sources told us on Friday ... that Geoffrey was uncooperative and assaulted the cop.

Four people from Wisconsin were killed over the weekend when a small single-engine plane crashed in Illinois.

According to the Illinois State Police, the plane went down around 10:15 AM on Saturday. All four people on board were pronounced dead at the scene.

According to CBS News, the crash happened after the plane struck a set of power lines.