Danger lurks at every turn, say these legends. Whether we're out on the highway or refueling at a gas station, vigilance must be maintained, lest the bad guys get us.

Teens playing spunkball are lobbing lit gasoline-soaked rags into stopped cars.*

Motorist unknowingly runs over carjackers lying in wait for her.*

Gang members drive without headlights on, then shoot whoever flashes them.*

Cell phones have touched off explosions at gas stations.

Police officers who use slim jims to assist locked-out motorists have been killed by airbags.

Criminals lie in wait under parked cars at malls to slash their victims' ankles.*

Gas station attendant warns motorist about dangerous man hiding in the back seat of her car.*

Motorist who has run-in with ruffians afterwards finds the severed fingers of his assailants on his car.*

SigAlerts, the Los Angeles advisories of severe traffic conditions, were named after radio executive Loyd Sigmon.

Static electricity is the cause of an increase in gas station refuelling fires.

An artist secretly painted a 60-foot-high image of a naked woman above a tunnel in Malibu Canyon in 1966.

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