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.
Man’s VW Golf Seized For Speeding Because He Didn’t Want His Food to Get Cold
5 Dec 2018, 10:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Junk food tastes better when it’s hot or warm, we can all agree on that. So, we can all understand why one driver from Sheffield, UK, was desperate to get home before his takeaway got cold. Of course, that’s not to say speeding is o...
Baltimore Woman Killed After Opening Car Window to Give Money to Beggars
4 Dec 2018, 16:48 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Generous, kind-hearted people might feel more inclined than ever to do a good deed now that the holiday season is upon us, but if you live in Baltimore, Maryland or happen to travel through it, make sure that this deed isn’t giving money to b...
Florida State Trooper Saves Man From Out of Control Audi, Takes The Hit Himself
4 Dec 2018, 16:03 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In what could best be described as being at the wrong place at the wrong time, one Florida State trooper was hit by an out of control vehicle while speaking to the victim of another car crash. Footage of the incident was captured and shared onl...
Flying Tire Causes 2 Collisions, Explosion of Semi Truck in Russia
4 Dec 2018, 15:13 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A strange and unpreventable incident caused serious damage on a road in Russia, and video of it has gone viral after it was picked up by the international media. Luckily, no human life was lost in the crash that involved a Scania truck, a silve...
Santa Hospitalized After Hit And Run in Oklahoma
4 Dec 2018, 14:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One Santa is down for the count, so kids in hospitals, city malls and at private events and concerts in Oklahoma won’t be able to see him this holiday season. Donn Mason has been working as Santa for the past 30 years. In all this years, ...
Woman Hits Another With Her Ford Mustang, Cuts Her in Half in Road Rage Incident
4 Dec 2018, 14:18 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / More details into an incident that occurred in mid-November in Springfield, Missouri have emerged, and they show just how cold-hearted a female driver was in regards to another’s safety and well-being. Elizabeth McKeown, 46, has been char...
S7 Plane Offers “Flight From Hell” in Scorching Heat Due to Aircon Malfunction
4 Dec 2018, 13:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Russians are tough, but not even they can withstand flying for 2 hours straight while scorching hot air or a freezing breeze blows through the aircon, making the air in the cabin practically unbreathable. It happened just recently, on a Siberia...
Man is Trying to Track Down 1979 Ford F-150 His Wife Was Born In
4 Dec 2018, 12:34 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One man from North Carolina is determined to track down and buy back the only link his wife still has to her late father: the 1979 Ford F-150 4x4 she was born in almost 37 years ago. Hugh Merritt’s story has gone viral, not because it&rsq...
This Old Lady’s Knight in Shining Armor Rides a Motorcycle
4 Dec 2018, 11:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Not every knight in shining armor comes riding a white horse. For one old lady in Scotland, he came on a motorcycle, at the exact moment she needed him: when she had to cross the street and no driver would stop to let her do it. Gestures of thi...
Badass Cat Uses Parked Car to Do Sit-Ups
3 Dec 2018, 17:01 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Because there aren’t that many opportunities to talk about videos with cars and cats in them, here’s one that’s making the rounds right now, to the delight of Internauts: a cat apparently doing its workout routine under a parked c...
Restaurant Staff Pitches in For Coworker's New Car, After The Old One Was Stolen
3 Dec 2018, 16:09 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / ‘Tis the season to be jolly – and generous. The staff and bosses of a restaurant in Lafayette, Louisiana, got together and raised enough money to buy a coworker a new car, after his old one was stolen from the parking lot. It’...
Woman Watching Netflix While Driving Causes 2 Crashes in Minnesota
3 Dec 2018, 15:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A Minnesota woman has managed to take distracted driving to a whole new level. Police arrested her after several 911 calls reporting reckless driving and found that she’d been watching Netflix on her iPad, while at the wheel. Netflix and ...
Mother Fakes Daughter’s Death by Car Crash, Daughter Finds Out in The Paper
3 Dec 2018, 15:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A woman living estranged from her mother had to find out in the paper and from relatives that she, the woman, had died in a car crash and that a memorial service for her had already taken place. Brittany Johnson-Webster is very much alive and w...
Man Pleads Guilty to Stealing Forklift to Ram Into Donald Trump’s Limo, Flip It
3 Dec 2018, 15:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A North Dakota man has pleaded guilty to stealing a forklift with the goal of using it to smash through the President’s motorcade, flip his limousine and ultimately kill him. Gregory Lee Leingang, a 42-year-old from Mandan, N.D., was arre...
British Airways Steward Arrested With 28lbs of Pure Cocaine in His Carry-On
3 Dec 2018, 14:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Airline crew members have certain perks when it comes to boarding the flights they work, but these don’t include avoiding security or X-ray checks. That’s something this British Airways steward had no idea about. Police in Sao Paolo,...
Student Jumps on Hood of Speeding Dodge Charger to Avoid Being Run Over, Lives
3 Dec 2018, 14:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One Texas man is facing serious charges after getting drunk at the wheel of his Dodge Charger, ramming another car from behind and then fleeing the scene of the crash with the other driver clinging on to dear life on the hood. It happened in Br...
Wife Crashes Into Husband’s Car Right in Their Driveway
3 Dec 2018, 13:21 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Here’s a video that probably sums up what many men still think about letting the Missus take the wheel: a wife crashing into her husband’s pickup truck, right in their driveway. We’re not going to discuss here whether women ar...
Drunk Driver Falls Asleep in Tesla Model S Zooming Down The Highway at 70mph
3 Dec 2018, 12:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It took officers from the California Highway Patrol a lot of effort and 7 long miles to pull over a Tesla Model S set on autopilot and with the drunk driver asleep at the wheel, The Sacramento Bee reports. The incident occurred on Friday and th...
Southwest Gate Agent Name-Shames 5-Year-Old Called Abcde
3 Dec 2018, 12:18 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Airline company Southwest is being criticized for name-shaming a 5-year-old girl who was pre-boarding a flight from John Wayne Airport in Orange County, California to El Paso, Texas. The incident actually occurred at the beginning of last month...
Woman Lends Homeless Man Her Chrysler, He Robs a Bank And Steals The Car
29 Nov 2018, 16:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman’s good dead before Christmas turned out to be a huge mistake, when the person she thought she was helping turned out to be a bank robber and a car thief. And a Grinch that ruined Christmas for the kids in the family. Jennifer Be...