You know when you're driving along an elevated highway and you think, man, what would happen if I drove through the guardrail, action-movie style? No? You don't know that? Well. If you were wondering: This is what would happen to your car.
A ten-year-old child in Maryland was impaled this morning in a terrible sledding accident.
Yesterday evening on highway I-94 in Michigan City, a 46-car pileup began after an unpredictable wave of lake-effect snow came onto the road, startling drivers and causing them to swerve into each other. The gust of precipitation, which is brother to the terrifying menace "thundersnow" and has been known to white out areas of the Midwest, fell onto the highway that connects Michigan to Montana. Three people have been pronounced dead.
A family from Dora, Alabama, lost their home after the owners decided to try and clean up toilet paper by lighting it on fire.
Kevin Ogar, an experienced athlete and Crossfit coach, was left paralyzed after a weightlifting accident during a competition earlier this month. Is that Crossfit's fault?
[Sad evidence of the dreadful New York weather is seen in this Yonkers Police Department photograph of an early morning pileup of SUVs, at least one taxi cab and a light pole. Photo via Associated Press.]
A Virginia woman who survived both cancer and a devastating motorcycle accident was struck and killed by a car last Sunday, during her first walk outdoors since her accident six months ago.
Four Marines were killed in a training accident today at Southern California's Camp Pendleton. Few other details have been released, but base officials said the accident occurred during "a range maintenance operation," according to the AP. A mortar explosion killed seven Marines training in Nevada only eight months ago.
Emergency crews are on the scene of an accident at the North Carolina State Fair. According to an EMS source, five passengers were ejected while riding the Vortex. All five victims were initially found unconscious but three regained consciousness before being transported to the hospital.
Jerry Moon’s family opened his casket to say their final goodbyes at his funeral on Monday. But what they saw was not their father’s corpse: inside the casket was the body of an unknown man with a plastic bag over his head. Even worse, the dead man inside the casket was dressed in their father’s clothes and had a picture of their mother tucked under his arm.
Aissante Diallo, 3, died in her Harlem apartment on Sunday after suffocating while trapped in a sofa bed. According to the New York Post, Aissante was at home when “the bed retracted, trapping her and her 10-year old sister.” The sister managed to escape, but Aissante was “squeezed inside.” NBC 4 reports that the girls were sleeping at the time of the accident.
According to reports, 13 children were injured, including two seriously injured, on a swing ride at the Oyster Festival at Veterans Memorial Park in Norwalk, Connecticut this afternoon. Children with minor injuries were treated and released at the scene, but the more seriously injured were transferred to Norwalk, Stamford, and Bridgeport hospitals.
A 19-year-old Queens man died Thursday afternoon after the remote control helicopter he was flying cut off part of his head and shoulder.
Whether or not Kim Nguyen wins her lawsuit against the LAPD, we can all agree that being ejected from a moving police car while wearing handcuffs is a poor way to end a night out. [Los Angeles Times]
A British tourist visiting Rockefeller Center suffered horrific injuries on Tuesday, after a New York taxicab jumped a curb where she was standing and severed her foot.
The medical examiner's report in the death of muckraking journalist Michael Hastings has been released and, conspiracy theories aside, the coroner has determined his death on June 18th was an accident, and that he had traces drugs in his system at the time he died.
Usher's 5-year-old son Usher Raymond V is recovering in an Atlanta hospital Tuesday afternoon, after nearly drowning while attempting to recover a toy that had become lodged in the drain of the singer's swimming pool.
A YouTube video posted yesterday appears to be footage shot during the horrifying moment when Southwest Flight 345 lost part of its landing gear and skidded to a stop on its nose at LaGuardia Airport on Monday.
A man in California who crashed his SUV into a utility pole and a fire hydrant will be charged with vehicular manslaughter following the electrocution of two women who rushed to his aid.
A Brazilian man was killed earlier this month when a cow crashed through the roof of his home, crushing him.
