All news on the topic: Accidental death

A toxicology report in connection to the three Kansas City Chiefs fans who froze to death outside a friend's home last month showed the men had 'several substances' in their system at the time of their deaths

A teenage brother and sister were orphaned after a horror crash left their entire family dead — their parents and two younger brothers. Now, their uncle is scrambling to raise money for funerals and care

A professional dancer living in New York City but originally from the UK collapsed and died after eating a cookie that had been mislabelled at a local supermarket

Brutal Arctic-like weather has buffeted vast areas of the country, with the freezing temperatures snow and ice having already claimed its first lives of what is expected to be a chilly winter

Doctors discharged a dying man and got police officers to take him away, but the cops feared for his life and tried to take him to another hospital, but were too late

A man who crashed while riding a scooter to pick up his toddler daughter has died after his condition deteriorated while he was in hospital with medics unsure of what happened

People who have died and come back to life have explained what happened during the few seconds they spent on 'the other side' - and it's very reassuring to hear

A reported homeless man died after a seemingly innocuous fight with a fellow 'vagrant' in a subway station and the shocking incident was caught on camera by a bystander

Kate Vokes, 54, and her son Archie Vokes, 22, were skiing in the French Alps on Thursday when an avalanche swept through the off-piste area and killed them both - the mum was a charity boss who'd previously met the Queen

Kate Vokes, 54, and her son Archie Vokes, 22, were skiing in the French Alps earlier this week when an avalanche swept through the off-piste area and killed them both - their family have now paid tribute to the pair

Following the death of Benn Curran-Nicholls who was poisoned after eating the berries and leaves from a yew tree here are some common British plants and berries you should avoid

Fears are growing for an artist from Brighton who was washed out to sea off the coast of Thailand when the diving boat she was on was swamped and then sunk by brutal seas

News-gathering colleagues have been left shocked and in mourning following the deaths of two people who were killed after their chopper came down while returning from an assignment in New Jersey

US Army Staff Sgt. Zachary Melton Zachary Melton was found unresponsive in his car on Saturday after he failed to show up for work at his South Carolina base

The tragedy took place as the man, his daughter, and three grandchildren, collected sand from the Mun River in Satuek District, lower north-eastern Thailand, to make improvements to their home

Staff and pupils at Pembridge Hall School were horrified to hear the news after clergymen came across his body on the stage at a nearby church

Gregory Jarvis had won $45,000 playing Club Keno in a Michigan bar just days before his body washed up on a private beach on the Saginaw Bay with the winning ticket still in his pocket

Jaclyn Elmquist tragically died after falling down a garbage chute, it is believed. Her friends and family have now expressed their devastation and paid tribute to a “creative” and “beautiful” sister

A father in Massachusetts has died in a tragic freak accident where it turned out that he was stabbed to death in the throat by the 'knife necklace' he was wearing

A tragic mix-up led to the death of a 'fearless hero' who had dashed back into his house to save his brother from a raging inferno while not realising his sibling had already escaped

A 3-month-old baby boy was tragically killed by an Alabama family's pet wolf late Thursday afternoon, mauled to death by the pet and later pronounced dead at a local hospital

Kindhearted people from a town where two young children were killed while walking to school have built a huge fund to help support the victims' families in just a few days

Victim Leilson Barros de Souza was hit by the bolt as he led a group up a mountain in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. While hiker Karlla Concei o Ara jo da Silva was filming the stunning views, she captured the moment the bolt struck the guide

Nine-year-old Arlette was helping to close the large metal gate at Centennial Elementary School in Tucson, Arizona, when the gate disconnected and fell on top of her leaving her with severe injuries that proved fatal

The Black man who was killed after a cop car ran him down as he attempted to cross Interstate 55 in Jackson, Mississippi, and who was buried without his family's knowledge, had an ID on him the whole time