Elena Gorgan
7,923 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.
Woman Sells Cadillac Eldorado Touring Coupe, Can’t Cancel Insurance Policy on It
16 Oct 2018, 15:20 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / One woman from Gulfport, Florida, is still paying insurance on a car she sold in July this year, because her insurance company is refusing to cancel her policy without her husband’s consent. Joan Sabin-Bradshaw tells NBC affiliate WFLA th...
California Cops Use Poppin’ Jalapeno Doritos to Lure Pig From Traffic
16 Oct 2018, 14:45 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / How’s that for an unusual job: deputies from the Highland Sheriff’s Station in San Bernardino County, California were called to handle a pig “the size of a mini horse” wandering in traffic. According to a hilarious (and...
Boy Who Crashed Car Into House Says Community Work is Messing Up His Social Life
16 Oct 2018, 13:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A 17-year-old boy got into an argument with his pregnant girlfriend while driving, and the result was that he smashed into a house, causing damage estimated at £45,000. The incident happened last December, in North Hykeham, near Lincoln, ...
Drunk Driver Smashes Into News Van, Steals Police Cruiser
16 Oct 2018, 13:30 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A news truck and a police cruiser were involved in a rather strange accident in Houston, at the intersection of Texas and Chartres Streets, NBC News reports. The news van, belonging to NBC affiliate KPRC, was hit by another car at the intersect...
13-Year-Old Steals Mom’s BMW For a Joyride, Gets Belted in Public
16 Oct 2018, 12:21 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you’re willing to do the crime, you’d better be willing to take the punishment. For one 13-year-old boy from El Paso, Texas, that turned out to be getting belted by her mother in public, on the road. It all started when Aaron, 13...
Vicious Fight Over Texas Parking Spot Emerges, Man Takes Down 2 Women
16 Oct 2018, 11:04 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A very violent and very unequal fight broke over a parking spot in September, in San Antonio, Texas, outside a Golden Wok Chinese restaurant. Surveillance video of it has just made its way online. It confirms the story told by the 2 female vict...
Tara Reid, Pooch Thrown Off Delta Flight After On-Board Disturbance
16 Oct 2018, 09:43 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Nowhere else is entitlement more at home than in showbiz, and it seems this even applies to former A-listers. Take Tara Reid for example, the former “American Pie” actress once considered Hollywood royalty, whose biggest acting credit r...
Dog Rides on The Roof of Nissan Truck in Thailand, is Totally Chill
15 Oct 2018, 16:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Some dogs like to ride in cars with their heads out the window, tongues flipping in the wind. This one pooch likes his rides best when it’s in the open air, standing on top of its human’s car. It happened in Thailand last month and ...
Woman is Hit by Her Own Car After She Runs Red Light, Hits Another Car
15 Oct 2018, 15:42 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Here’s the kind of story that could almost make you believe that age-old stereotype about how women are the lousiest drivers on the face of the planet: a woman was run over by her own car after an accident. It happened in Pasco, Washingto...
Princess Eugenie Arrived at Her Royal Wedding in a 1977 Rolls Royce Phantom VI
15 Oct 2018, 15:25 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Prince Eugenie, daughter of Duchess Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew, and the ninth in succession to the throne of the United Kingdom, was married to Jack Brooksbank at St. George’s Chapel on Friday. That’s the same church where &ld...
Woman Causes 2 Accidents, Flees, Claims She’s Been Stabbed
15 Oct 2018, 14:57 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In today’s strange news, police in Youngstown, Ohio are looking for a woman who was involved in 2 pretty serious accidents and then fled the scene after claiming she’d been stabbed by her husband. The accident occurred outside a chu...
Police Release Surveillance Video of Kelsey Quayle Shooting
15 Oct 2018, 14:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The death of an aspiring model who had just moved to Atlanta to pursue bigger projects, as well as the accident she caused, continue to baffle investigators. News broke at the end of last week that 28-year-old Kelsey Quayle had caused a 3-vehic...
Kids Freak Out in Viral Video From Haunted Texas Car Wash
15 Oct 2018, 13:07 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It’s not Halloween yet, but we might as well get in the spirit of it. If you happen to drive through Spring, Texas this month at the weekend, make sure you stop by the GFY Express Car Wash for the scare of a lifetime. It was definitely mo...
50-Pound Pig Goes Wild in Augusta Traffic
15 Oct 2018, 12:23 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Augusta police are actively looking for the owner of a 50-pound piglet that was caught wandering through busy traffic – apparently for several hours. The animal was spotted on North Belfast Avenue, just east of Church Hill Road, over the ...
Britain’s Hottest Crook Rides Black Yamaha R1, Has Perfect Eyebrows
15 Oct 2018, 11:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It happened in the U.S. a few years ago with Hot Felon Jeremy Meeks, and it’s happening in the UK as well now. This time, it’s not a known gang member who’s breaking hearts and getting ladies all hot and bothered, but a bike rider...
Dad Drives Son to School in Ferrari 488, Faces “Social Boycott” For It
15 Oct 2018, 11:16 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / If you got it, should you flaunt it? That’s the question that’s been sparking a heated debate on social media in China, after a father was criticized by teachers and fellow parents for dropping his son off to school in a Ferrari 488. ...
Miami Uber Driver Rapes Drunk Passenger, Says It’s One of The “Perks of the Job”
15 Oct 2018, 09:53 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Another shocking case against a Uber driver is drawing attention to the fact that the company is still behind in terms of making sure its policy on background checks effectively protects the very customers it serves. Frederick Gaston, a Uber dr...
2017 Dodge Challenger Driver Runs Over Man After Dunkin Donuts Dispute
13 Oct 2018, 05:56 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / That’s one (dangerous) way to have the final say: a woman chose to settle a verbal dispute by using her muscle car to run over one of the man she’d been arguing with. The incident occurred last week, in the parking lot of a Dunkin D...
School Bus Crashes Into Swimming Pool in Orlando
12 Oct 2018, 14:28 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Out of all the things you can expect to wake up to in your home swimming pool, a school bus with children on board is perhaps the last on the list – if it’s there at all. The strange accident happened on Friday morning in Orlando, l...
Biker Moons Jaguar Driver For Honking Him
12 Oct 2018, 14:19 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Mooning is not reserved for kids and teenagers, it seems. While many of us wouldn’t presume to moon another person under any circumstances, a biker did it while riding his bike – and flipping the bird. It happened in Lymm, Cheshire o...