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.
Police Stop Car Driven Without Front Tire, Find Drunk Driver
28 Jan 2019, 13:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Drunk driving is bad enough, but drunk driving a car that’s missing its front tire is a different ball game altogether. And a very risky one for everyone involved, needless to say. Norfolk Police were “shocked” to find one su...
Man Drives 3 Miles With Another Man on The Hood of His Infiniti FX
28 Jan 2019, 12:27 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Today’s lesson of why it’s never a good idea to jump in front of a car, in the hope of preventing the driver from fleeing, comes from an incident on the Massachusetts Turnpike. Luckily, no one was hurt. The incident took place on Fr...
NYC Cyclist Jumps on Uber Car, Smashes Windows With Bike Lock
28 Jan 2019, 12:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A road rage incident in New York City turned violent when a cyclist used his bike lock to smash the windows of an Uber car, and then to attack the driver who was trying to flee to safety. The NYPD has released footage of the attacker, in the hop...
Connecticut Woman Arrested For Driving Drunk on Vanilla Extract
28 Jan 2019, 10:40 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 50-year-old woman from New Canaan, Connecticut, got arrested and charged with driving under the influence after she got drunk on vanilla extract. This may sound like a joke, but it’s not: vanilla extract contains at least 35 percent alco...
Thief Takes Toyota Camry With 13YO Sleeping Inside, Hates The Hassle
25 Jan 2019, 19:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Talk about a nap to remember. A 13-year-old girl from Fort Worth, Texas, fell asleep in the backseat of her mother’s car and woke up to find out the car had been stolen with her inside. She then tried to pursue the thieves when they sped off ...
Hawaii Woman Keeps Car Thieves Away With Handwritten Note
25 Jan 2019, 17:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Hawaii may have just found the cheapest method of keeping would-be car thieves at bay: she wrote them a note and she makes sure to leave it on her windshield whenever she steps out of her vehicle. KHON2 reports that, in December ...
Pigeon Poop Costs Car Owner £158 in Parking Fines
25 Jan 2019, 16:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There is a widely held belief that bird poop on your person, car or other belongings will bring you good luck and that the more birds, the luckier you’re about to get. That definitely doesn’t apply to a man from Southend, UK. Scott ...
Jaguar Land Rover Disables Seatbelt Alarms on Queen, Prince Philip’s Cars
25 Jan 2019, 15:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The members of the British Royal Family are still facing a severe PR storm in light of Prince Philip’s car crash near Sandringham Estate, which he caused. This new report may only add more fuel to the fire. Prior to the accident and days ...
Public School Headmaster Forces Teen Car Vandals to Apologize to Their Victims
25 Jan 2019, 14:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The headmaster of a prestigious public school in the UK will not have the students go out and make fools of themselves without having to suffer the consequences – especially if that involves damage to other people’s property. A coup...
Entire Family Got Kicked Off United Airlines Flight Because They Stink
25 Jan 2019, 13:24 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There’s something rotten in the State of Denmark, as the Bard would say. A family booked to travel on United Airlines from Miami to Detroit believe something happened to have staff boot them off the plane under pretenses that passengers had c...
California Man Jumps on Car Hood, Smashes Windshield With His Fist
25 Jan 2019, 12:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Hulk go smash when Hulk angry. A 40-year-old man from Anaheim, California, jumped on a woman’s car and smashed her windshield with his bare fist, in an apparent road rage altercation. The incident was captured on camera by one of the woma...
Drunk Man Takes Wrong Lyft to The Wrong House in The Wrong Town
25 Jan 2019, 12:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / There’s tipsy and then there’s drunk and then there’s this: a man from Falmouth got drunk in Old Port, Maine, and then got into a wrong Lyft, traveled to the wrong town and stopped at the wrong house. He then tried to get inside t...
Here’s a Mako Shark Hanging Out The Back of a Vehicle on a Sydney Highway
23 Jan 2019, 19:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / These days, it’s almost as if people love to be outraged. That said, the latest wave of indignation comes from Sydney, Australia, with the sighting of a dead mako shark hanging out the back of a vehicle speeding down the highway. First o...
Teens Take Aunt’s Chevy HHR Without Permission, Get Carjacked
23 Jan 2019, 17:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It’s not that uncommon for teens to take their parents’ car without telling them first. Though illegal, neither is it that uncommon for the teens to not have a valid driver’s license when they take the car for a ride with a pal or...
Woman Runs Out of Gas on Isolated Stretch of Oregon Highway, is Stranded
23 Jan 2019, 16:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / You see this kind of stuff in horror movies, when motorists and their unlucky passengers become stranded after running out of gas in the middle of nowhere, where there’s no traffic and no cell phone coverage. It happened most recently to ...
Teen Steals Range Rover, Drives to McDonald’s And Forgets to Put it in Park
23 Jan 2019, 15:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / When hunger strikes, it doesn’t even matter if you’re driving a stolen car, because a stop at McDonald’s is a must. One teen who found himself in such a situation must have been so hungry that he forgot to put the car in park when...
Supermom Saves 4-Year-Old Trapped Inside Car Submerged in Frozen Pond
23 Jan 2019, 15:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Hantsport, Nova Scotia, Canada, has earned the moniker of “Supermom” after she single-handedly managed to bring her 4-year-old daughter to safety, after the car they were in landed on its roof in a frozen pond. It hap...
Azealia Banks Walks Off Aer Lingus Flight Because “Irish Women Are Ugly”
23 Jan 2019, 15:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Rapper Azealia Banks may be brilliant as an artist, but she’s not exactly PC when it comes to voicing her opinions. And boy, does she have those! Her latest, for instance, is that all “Irish women are ugly” and it stems from an in...
Car Gets Crushed Between SUV And Truck, Driver Walks Away Unharmed
23 Jan 2019, 14:11 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / This is not the best way to start off a week, as one of the drivers involved in a strange 3-car (literal) pile-up puts it. It happened in Manchester Township, Pennsylvania and luckily no one was injured. It would be hard to believe if you only ...
Overweight Passenger Forces Flight Attendants on EVA Air to Wipe His Butt
23 Jan 2019, 14:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Flight attendants on an EVA Air flight from Los Angeles to Taipei were sexually harassed by a foreign passenger who was overweight and immobilized in a wheelchair, one flight attendant has told the national media. The man, who has a history of ...