Elena Gorgan
8,136 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.
“Runaway” Garbage Truck Falls Over Wall, Totals BMW X5 and Audi Q3
10 Aug 2018, 17:08 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Of all the things you could expect to land on your front lawn, the least you’d imagine seeing would be a garbage truck. Especially if, in landing, it would smash 2 of your most expensive cars. CCTV footage from an incident that happened i...
Car T-Boning Tanker And Crashing Into Another Car is The Definition of Good Luck
10 Aug 2018, 14:58 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / With the rising number of drivers using dashcams at all times in traffic, we also get an increasing number of videos showing fatal collisions, funny incidents, road rage altercations and, more often than we’d like, real tragedies. The vid...
Each Time Kanye West Canceled on Carpool Karaoke It Cost Producers $45,000
10 Aug 2018, 14:22 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Some of the biggest names in showbiz have agreed to take a televised ride with James Corden for his insanely popular segment Carpool Karaoke. You might have noticed that Kanye West, aka Yeezus himself, was never among them. That’s not for...
Idaho Man Survives 2 Days Pinned Under Rolled-Over Truck
10 Aug 2018, 13:41 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 21-year-old male driver from Idaho was involved in a car crash and survived pinned under his truck for 2 days. The rescue operation was difficult but successful. In what seems like a scenario from action movies, authorities say that a missing...
Clip of Camel Trapped Inside Toyota Corolla After Crash Goes Viral
10 Aug 2018, 13:21 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Here’s an accident you don’t get to see that often – and praise the Powers that Be for that! A camel was hit by a speeding car and ended up stuck inside the vehicle for 4 full hours. A Toyota Corolla was rolling down the highw...
Opel Astra Convertible Driver Pulled Over With Mattress in The Passenger Seat
10 Aug 2018, 13:01 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / While having a car could easily make you believe there’s no limit to what you could transport in it, you have to draw the line when it comes to your and other people’s safety. In fewer, simpler words: no, stuffing a mattress in your...
Truck Driver Drags Woman Under Trailer For Confronting Him on Hit And Run
10 Aug 2018, 12:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 47-year-old woman was killed for daring to confront a drunk truck driver for hitting her car and fleeing the scene without exchanging insurance information, People Crime reports. The incident happened earlier this week in Aurora. The woman wa...
Princeton Police Patrol Cruiser Mistaken for ICE Car Because of Unfinished Decal
10 Aug 2018, 11:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One of the patrol cruisers from the Princeton Police Department is being mistaken for an ICE car to such an extent that the department felt the need to set the record straight – publicly, no less. As President Trump’s war on illegal...
Graphic: Woman Saved by Her Helmet as a Concrete Truck Runs Over Her Head
10 Aug 2018, 09:50 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / As PSAs on the importance of wearing a helmet go, this is by far the most effective. As the saying goes, seeing is believing – and you won’t believe the kind of luck one young woman from China had when a concrete truck ran over her head...
Man Tries to Take Driving Test in Car With Drugs, Gun And Money, Fails
9 Aug 2018, 16:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 22-year-old man from Baltimore, Reginald D. Wooding Jr., picked the wrong day to get a state driver’s license. He used his mother’s vehicle for the test, but forgot to remove incriminating items from it beforehand. This just goes t...
Boxer Chris Eubank Uses Fake Ticket to Get Out of Parking Fine For His Bentley
9 Aug 2018, 15:38 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / No one says you can’t be loaded and a cheapskate. British boxer Chris Eubank could be the living example of that, after he was photographed using a fake parking ticket to avoid paying parking for his custom Bentley. It happened in London ...
Harlem Globetrotter Bullard Makes Insane Trick Shot From an Airplane
9 Aug 2018, 14:54 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Some people like to jump out of airplanes for fun or because it’s their job to do so, but a Harlem Globetrotter will see any flying object as the perfect platform from which to attempt a difficult trick shot. Just look at William “B...
Harley the Cat Survives Being Hit by a Car Twice, Has 7 Lives Left
9 Aug 2018, 14:10 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / They say cats have 9 lives, and Harley just lost 2 of them, after being involved in a serious accident. He is ok now, but has only 7 lives left. It all happened upstate New York, in the rural town of Grafton, just outside Albany. Police receive...
Watch a Herd of Cows Help Police Capture a Suspect
9 Aug 2018, 13:14 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Occasionally, help comes from the last place you expect it to. Florida police was chasing a reportedly stolen Subaru SUV, when 2 of its 3 occupants decided to try and make an escape on foot. One of them, the driver, was captured with help from ...
Egyptian Students Create Car That Runs on Air, Can Hit Speeds of 40kph
9 Aug 2018, 13:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In a bid to come up with the perfect solution in terms of an eco-friendly, cheap car, undergraduates from the Helwan University in Cairo, Egypt, have created a car that runs on nothing but air. It looks like a go-kart cart and it’s easy a...
Driver Crashes Car, Flees the Scene, Holds Innocent Frog Hostage
9 Aug 2018, 11:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A Nebraska man gave police officers a world of trouble after he flipped his car and decided he wouldn’t linger around until the cops came. An innocent frog also became involved in the incident at some point, with the driver threatening to...
Tourist Punched to Death by BMW X3 Driver in NYC, While Looking For His Uber
9 Aug 2018, 11:39 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Even if today’s world of senseless violence, this incident can easily steal the crown. A 35-year-old man from Boca Raton who had traveled to New York to attend a family wedding, was punched to death by a driver he mistook for his Uber driver....
Lamborghini Driver Speeding in Dubai Has Vauxhall Corsa Mobility Car Back Home
9 Aug 2018, 11:11 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A British tourist is stranded in his hotel room in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, after he racked up no less than 33 traffic violations for speeding in 4 hours, totaling $45,000. The story broke the other day, as leasing company Saeed Ali Ren...
DUI Suspect is Embodiment of Entitlement: I’m a White, Clean, Thoroughbred Girl
9 Aug 2018, 09:21 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 32-year-old woman, Lauren Elizabeth Cutshaw, got drunk and then got behind the wheel of her Ford Fusion, blowing through stop signs at a high speed before she was pulled over in South Carolina. She admitted having a couple of glasses of wine,...
Lewis Hamilton is Cleaning up Beaches in Mykonos, Wants You to do The Same
8 Aug 2018, 14:27 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Lewis Hamilton’s commitment to all things environment-related is not new, but he’s living up to his reputation as a champion for a cleaner, healthier planet. The 4-time Formula One world champion is now on vacation on the Greek isla...