Elena Gorgan
8,139 ARTICLES
Personal motto:
“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.” - Henry Ford
She has covered automotive and mobility topics like cars and bicycles, ranging from the regular and all the way to celebrity culture, film, and music.
More than anything, Elena loves to tell stories about unusual or very special projects, but you can also count on her if you’re looking for the perfect e-bike.
Her work has been published on Softpedia News, InOut Star and, since 2018, autoevolution.
Driver Makes 400-Mile Detour to Take Stranded Couple to Dying Mom
20 Mar 2019, 13:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / This is today’s story meant to restore faith in humanity: one driver from the U.K. made a detour of 400 miles to help out a couple stranded on the side of the road, taking them to see her dying mother. Ron and Sharleen Gillies set out fro...
Malaysian Man Arrested at Airport For Smuggling Live Human Embryo Into India
20 Mar 2019, 12:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Smuggling drugs, gold or art is old news. A Malaysian man was arrested at an airport in India, as he was trying to bring a live human embryo in the country. The destination was a renown infertility clinic, Partiban Durai told the authorities aft...
David Beckham Pleads Guilty to Texting And Driving
19 Mar 2019, 17:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Whether he’s speeding and avoiding any kind of responsibility when he’s caught, or using his cellphone whilst driving, David Beckham isn’t making any actual effort to live up to his status as a role model. At least, that’s w...
Florida Driver Rams Girlfriend’s Car, Causes Deadly Mass Crash
19 Mar 2019, 15:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A domestic altercation became a deadly vehicular event involving several cars, that injured several innocent people and killed one in St. Cloud, Florida. And it’s all because the man rammed the woman’s car in traffic. Andric Barksda...
Armed Robber Tries to Steal Chevy Impala, Finds Man Sleeping Inside
19 Mar 2019, 15:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Dozing off in the backseat of a car is no longer what it used to be. One man from Cleveland, Ohio, fell asleep in his cousin’s Chevrolet Impala and he woke up to find an armed (but shirtless) robber in the driver seat, threatening him. Th...
Sideswipe a Chevrolet Camaro SS And Flee, Get Instant Karma
19 Mar 2019, 14:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you’re a poor driver and you know you’re driving uninsured and unlicensed, you’d better stay in your lane and not cause any more trouble. Because you might end up like the woman in the video at the bottom of the page. Shot ...
High on Meth, Driver Dances in His Car After Mass Accident He Caused
19 Mar 2019, 14:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / At least 5 people were injured in a mass accident that occurred in Da Lat, Vietnam last week, but a video that surfaced the other day shows just how insane the whole scene was. Starting with the driver who caused it, who danced inside the wreck of ...
Woman Steals Car And Flees The Cops, Then Tries to Blame it on a Kid Passenger
19 Mar 2019, 13:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 19-year-old woman from Lakewood, Washington, is in police custody after more than a dozen home detention violations stemming from a December incident that saw her stealing a car and leading police on a high-speed chase. And that’s only t...
Drunk Passenger on Deutsche Bahn Demands High-Speed Train Slow Down
19 Mar 2019, 13:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It’s not just drinking and driving that’s dangerous: getting on a train while under the influence can also end in trouble. A very drunk and disturbed man caused quite a commotion on the ICE-operated Deutsche Bahn in Germany, after he tr...
Duty Free Alcohol Banned on UK Flights to Prevent Drunken Air Rage
19 Mar 2019, 12:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Alcohol-fueled air rage is becoming a problem for many UK airline companies. While incidents remain fairly rare, they are serious enough to prompt an all-out ban of alcohol bought from duty free shops. Most British airline companies already hav...
Drunk Driver Calls The Cops on Drunk Driver, Gets Duly Arrested
19 Mar 2019, 10:26 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One drunk driver thought he could outsmart a fellow motorist, who happened to be just as drunk as he was, after they got involved in a minor collision on the M1 in Derbyshire, U.K. Turns out, he couldn’t. The collision between a Peugeot a...
Lafayette Man Jumps From Mother’s Car, Puts a Beating on Cops, Paramedics
18 Mar 2019, 18:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A young man from Lafayette, Louisiana, has been hospitalized and is facing charges after he intentionally jumped from his mother’s car while it was moving and attacking first responders who came to his aid. Erik Andrews, 27, was traveling...
Drunk Driver Crashes, Flees, Returns to Recover His Bottle of Booze
18 Mar 2019, 17:33 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / File this under “as stupid as it gets:” not only did this Wisconsin man drink and drive, but he managed to run himself into a ditch and then he fled the scene of the accident. He returned some time later because he wanted to drink some ...
Donald Trump Hates, Doesn’t Trust “Crazy” Self-Driving Cars
18 Mar 2019, 16:37 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In case you were wondering what Donald Trump’s stance on self-driving cars was, and were maybe hoping he was supporting the technology given his reluctance to regulate this branch of the auto industry, bad news. He hates driverless cars. ...
Woman Gets Stolen Buick Back, Thief Comes Asking For Property Left Inside
18 Mar 2019, 14:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Count yourself lucky if you get your stolen car back, and consider yourself doubly so if the thieves don’t come visiting for a second time. One woman from Albuquerque, New Mexico, had her Buick stolen from her driveway. Kelley tells KOB4 ...
Miami Woman “Hanging Out” of Car Falls, is Run Over
18 Mar 2019, 14:15 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There’s a good reason why seatbelts are mandatory, as is sitting in your seat when the car is in motion. One woman died in Miami at the weekend after she fell out the window she was hanging out of, while the car was speeding on the freeway. ...
Dude Tests Tesla’s Autopilot Braking on His Wife
18 Mar 2019, 13:35 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Amid ongoing debate on the reliability of autonomous vehicles in general, and Tesla’s Autopilot in particular, one dude’s video is causing quite a controversy online. Posting under the moniker KriszXstream, the video is a test of Tes...
Dwayne Johnson Gets Dragged For Saying Army Tank Named “The Rock” is “Sexy”
18 Mar 2019, 13:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Much like Jason Momoa, Dwayne Johnson (best known as The Rock or the highest-selling actor in Hollywood for a couple of consecutive years), can do no wrong. That is, until he says a tank is “sexy AF.” It all happened at the end of l...
Fight Breaks on Board Ryanair Flight to Tenerife, Man Has Nose “Bitten Off”
18 Mar 2019, 12:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A bunch of tourists traveling with Ryanair from Glasgow Prestwick to Tenerife South got their holiday mood on with a little help from Fight Club. As a result, two men ended up in police custody. Ben Wardrop was on board that flight. He captured ...
Driver Named Sober Arrested For Drunk Driving
15 Mar 2019, 16:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / We’ve all laughed at mugshots of drivers arrested for driving under the influence (of drugs or alcohol, it makes no difference) while wearing tees and shirts that claimed they would never do that. This is taking it to the next level. A ma...