All news on the topic: Accidents

A coroner in Idaho has said a car crash that killed a family of four occurred when the 17-year-old driver fell asleep at the wheel, plunging the car off a cliff and into a lake

Rebecca Ikumelo, 33, and on-duty security worker Gaby Hutchinson, 23, were killed in a crush at the O2 Academy Brixton in December during a concert by Nigerian Afrobeats artist Asake

A 'heartbroken' mother is demanding that the local council takes action after her nine-year-old daughter lost six fingers in a shocking fly-tipping accident

Eden Young fell to her death in Madrid, Spain, during a holiday with her friend Gina, her heartbroken family said. They are now raising money to fly her body home for a funeral

A mother-of-two from California plunged to her death from a waterfall last week as she heroically tried to save a teen girl who had lost her footing during a hike

Mick Wallage has won the World Beard & Moustache Championships three times after deciding to grow his long beard when a tragic hit-and-run incident left him wheelchair-bound for months

Madeleine Edsell and Mitchell Gaffney celebrated their wedding with family and friends, but it sadly turned into tragedy when a bus bringing guests home overturned, killing 10 people and injuring 21

A concerning collapse on part of the northbound I-95 highway in Philadelphia, US, could take 'months' to fix, according to officials. One vehicle is still trapped hours after a truck fire

A further 25 people have been hospitalised as a result of the accident, whilst police fear further passengers could still be trapped under the overturned vehicle in Hunter Valley, NSW

Helen Holland's sister Dorothy Phillips said the pair had lunch together and shared a 'loving' hug before the woman was hit by a police motorcade escorting Sophie Wessex last month

Mum-of-six Kimberly Krone, from Texas, US, was cleaning up a frying pan in her kitchen in June 2009 when a lightning strike came through her roof and struck her in the chest

Kyle Barrow and his best friend Cal Junior travelled to Turkey and rented mopeds to go on a 'day of adventures' - but the 27-year-old tragically crashed and died

Hamdan Aslam died of natural causes after an incident at St Kentigern's Academy in Blackburn, West Lothian, on Tuesday. The teen was rushed to hospital but tragically passed away

The youngster, who passed away in Salford, Greater Manchester on Thursday, has been named locally as Saul Cookson

A teenager who was on an electronic bike died after being followed by Greater Manchester Police officers in Salford this afternoon. The boy died after a collision with an ambulance

Justin Arthur got into some difficulty while swimming at a waterfall on the Caribbean island of Tobago. The 24-year-old had travelled from London to attend the funeral of his aunt and her husband

Single mum Vicky Waugh, 33, has warned others not to go swimming in open water this summer after 16-year-old son Kalen drowned in Salford Quays last July

'Brilliant' Joe Abbess, who studied hospitality at City College Southampton, had been swimming close to the pier at Bournemouth seafront last week when tragedy struck and he drowned

Kirsty Madden lost her 15-year-old daughter in a tragedy at Carr Mill Dams in St Helen's, Merseyside last week after she went swimming in the lake with a friend

An air ambulance has been dispatched to Victoria Park in Southport, Merseyside, following the accident understood to have been caused by a "freak gust of wind" this afternoon

A tourist was seen ignoring her children as they approached a notorious 80ft drop in Cornwall where a woman died in 2018, as locals slammed the mum for her behaviour

Ashleigh Lomas says she and Dan Boyle were "laughing and joking" minutes before the father of her children tumbled off the third-floor balcony at their Lanzarote accommodation

As many as 288 people lost their lives - with the death toll expected to rise further - after three trains collided in the Odisha state of India on Friday evening

Dan Butler was resuscitated on the pavement and rushed to hospital in Lanzarote, just hours after arriving on the Canary Island, and it is thought his heart had stopped suddenly

Two passenger trains - including a Shalimar-Chennai Coromandel Express - and a goods train collided in Odisha state of India as 115 ambulances, 50 buses and 45 mobile health units worked through the night