
Todd Green, a Silver Wings Wingwalking Team stuntman, has died after falling about 60 metres (200 feet) at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base Air Show in Harrison Charter Township, about 32 km (20 miles) northeast of Detroit, Michigan. Wing walker, Todd Green was trying to move from a plane to a helicopter when he fell at the Selfridge Air National Guard Base Air Show, according to the…

…venture outside with her missing limb visible. Lauren Scruggs was out shopping with her parents near her home in Texas, likely spending some of the settlement she received as a result of the December 3 accident. There have been reports Lauren Scruggs received more than $1million in the settlement that was reached last week after rejecting the first offer of $200,000. TMZ reported she received sev…
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At least 7 people were killed and 51 injured in a horrific 27 vehicles crash on the M5 motorway near Taunton, Somerset, UK. The crash described by the emergency services as one of the worst they have ever seen. There are fears the death toll could soar even higher as police said they believe bodies may still be trapped in vehicles which have been left “burnt and unrecognisable”. The h…

At least 28 people, including 22 children, have been killed after a Belgian coach crashed in a tunnel in the canton of Valais, Switzerland. Another 24 children were injured in the crash near Sierre, close to the border with Italy. The children were travelling from Val d’Anniviers and were returning to Belgium. The coach, carrying 52 people back to Belgium, hit a wall in the tunnel head-on…

According to Reno police a total of nine people were killed and other 69 were injured on Friday when a World War II aircraft crashed during the Air Races at Reno-Stead Airport in Nevada. The airplane crash happened at around 4:30 pm local time on Friday when a P-51D Mustang known as The Galloping Ghost, being flown by 74-year-old Jimmy Leeward from Florida, crashed into a box seat area in front o…

Seven US Marines have died after two helicopters collided in Arizona, officials say. The mid-air accident happened near the city of Yuma during a training exercise, the US Marines said. The accident happened on Wednesday night, and an investigation is under way into how it happened. The marines, flying in Cobra and Huey helicopters, were part of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, based at Miramar in S…

en were injured, and there are fears the death toll may rise. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his sorrow and offered assistance. The bus is believed to have been carrying up to 50 children at the time of the crash, which happened on a busy road junction. At least one report said a teacher had also been killed. At least eight Palestinian children have been killed in a colli…

…sh at the Beverly Hills hotel in Los Angeles on Wednesday. The windscreen was smashed and the front of the car caved in. The airbags were activated and parts of the vehicle littered the ground. Diddy, 42, was so shaken by the crash that he was seen lying down on the grass beside his vehicle. He was accompanied by record label boss Andre Hurrell, who helped him to his feet. A second passenger was a…
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…uncertain what caused the accident, but said the climbers did not appear to have been roped together. The hikers were descending the Lagginhorn mountain when they fell, at about 13:00 on Tuesday. The 4,010 m (13,155 ft) Lagginhorn is in the Valais canton in the Swiss Alps, about 10 km (6 miles) from the Italian border. “The five climbers fell several hundred metres. They all died at the sce…
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…as Fisher. The scientists even calculated how much radioactivity might have been present in the fish before they swam across the Pacific (it would have fallen over time) and figured it could have been 50% above background levels; but, again, this would still have met the legal requirements for safe consumption. Tuna caught in the coming months will be subjected to new tests. These animals would ha…

Alana Thompson’s father Sugar Bear has had emergency surgery to treat an infection on a leg wound after he was involved in an accident last week. Honey Boo Boo’s father has undergone a surgical procedure to remove infected tissues from the affected area, according to TMZ.com. There had been claims Sugar Bear would need to have his leg amputated following the mud bogging accident, but…
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…out of 10 American drivers overall – and half of drivers between 21 and 24 – say they’ve thumbed messages or emailed from the driver’s seat, according to a survey of more than 6,000 drivers by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Even more, many drivers don’t think it’s dangerous when they do it – only when others do, the survey found. At a…
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Norcross, Georgia, when she was knocked down last Friday according to the police incident report. Gwinnett County authorities are still seeking information to help explain the accidental death of the 32-year-old, who was a popular member of the 1990s girl group Blaque. According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Natina Reed’s family is planning a press conference in the city to discuss the cas…
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to land on the centre of the concrete guard rail, KVEC Radio reports. The big-rig truck, meanwhile, ploughed through the guardrail, falling into Nojoqui Creek and immediately bursting into flames. The 48-year-old truck driver, whose name has not yet been released, died at the scene. navy seabees, big rig truck, freeway bridge, san juan capistrano, mother and two daughters, california freeway, hig…

ay The three persons dead were two French tourists and a crew member from Peru, Port authorities in Livorno said. Giuseppe Orsina, a spokesman with the local civil protection agency, said 43 to 51 persons were missing, though authorities are reviewing passenger lists to confirm the exact figure. “These people could be still on the island of Giglio, in private houses or in hospitals,…

…guess the battery exploded. And that’s when everything went up.” Brad Luddeke won’t admit that he probably saved someone’s life but said he was just glad to help as he lost his son, 17, in a traffic accident seven years ago. The brave man assured all the good little boys and girls that Santa won’t be late this year after his moment of heroism….
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…urs of commercial ballooning experience. The incident is New Zealand’s worst air disaster since 1979, when an Air New Zealand sightseeing flight crashed into Mt Erebus in Antarctica, killing all 257 passengers on board….

…ed her life happened after she and family friend Curt Richmond had gone out in a small plane to see the Christmas lights above his Dallas home. In the dramatic 911 call placed at 8:43 p.m. on December 3, a woman can be heard saying: “A girl walked into an airplane prop – I need an ambulance immediately. I think it cut her hand off.” A male voice can also be heard moaning and crying and when…
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Lauren Scruggs, a fashion model from Plano, Dallas, had her hand sliced off and suffered severe facial injuries after accidentally walking into a spinning airplane propeller. Lauren Scruggs, 23, sustained horrific wounds to her head and shoulder but is now in a stable condition after undergoing emergency treatment where surgeons were forced to amputate her left hand. The fashion model, who writes…

One person has been killed and 15 others were injured in a crash involving Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe’s motorcade, police say. A car in the motorcade hit a commuter bus near the rural town of Zvimba – the third such accident in two weeks. Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said Sunday’s accident happened because the bus failed to make way for the president’s vehicle…

may not have been able to get out of the way of the larger vessel. Other participants in the race said they saw a tanker or heard warnings on their radios. “This has never happened in the entire 65 years of the race that I’m aware of,” the commodore of the Newport Sailing Association Chuck Iverson told the Associated Press news agency. “We’re all shocked by this whole…

Top Cuban dissident Oswaldo Paya has died in a car crash, according to fellow activists. Oswaldo Paya, 60, was travelling near the city of Bayamo, in the eastern province of Granma, when the accident happened, they said. He is known as the founder of the Varela Project – a campaign to gather signatures in support of a referendum on laws guaranteeing civil rights. Oswaldo Paya was seen as a…

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo reality show has been branded by Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine as the “worst thing that’s ever happened” to civilization. Adam Levine has slammed the reality series – which follows 7-year-old beauty pageant contestant Alana Thompson (aka Honey Boo Boo) and her family – for causing “decay” to society and insists its high viewing figures do not mean it has…
Dec 4 2012 | Posted in
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…t accidental.” Leolah Brown, sister of singer Bobby Brown, also advised the couple’s daughter Bobbi Kristina that she should “not trust anybody at this time”. Whitney Houston was found dead aged 48 on February 11 in the Beverly Hilton hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The singer was found dead in a bathtub in her suite, sparking suggestions she might have passed out after a drug overdose….

was with an unidentified 15-year-old girl at the time and both children were airlifted to Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta at Egleston. He was later declared brain dead. A friend of the family, 38-year-old Jeffrey S. Hubbard, was allegedly operating the jet ski at the time of the collision. Sergeant Mike Burgamy of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources said: “A pontoon was pulling the…
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