All news on the topic: Accidents

The 7-year-old Sloan Mattingly tragically died after she was buried alive in a sand hole collapse while playing with her brother, Maddox, on a Florida beach. A relative says she was trying to grab her brother's leg in her final moments

A 93-year-old woman has died after a road accident in Broughty Ferry, near Dundee. Emergency services took her to hospital for treatment but she tragically died later

A huge fire at an apartment block in the Yuhuatai district of Nanjing, eastern China, killed at least 15 people and injured 44. An investigation is ongoing, local authorities said

Superstar Taylor Swift is performing across five continents for her Eras Tour - and while most shows have run smoothly, there have also been some unfortunate incidents along the way

The helicopter is seen carrying goods over the pristine Aprica resort in northern Italy, when it drops a gas cylinder on to the slope, almost hitting a skier careening down the piste

Matt Fiddes, who was Michael Jackson's bodyguard for a decade, said an accident the King of Pop suffered during a dance rehearsal led him to undergo surgery to get a smaller nose

Sloan Mattingly, 7, was playing on a beach in Florida with her older brother Maddox, 9, when they decided to dig a hole. Tragically, it collapsed on them, burying Sloan completely

An Amazon driver from Wisconsin avoided death by just a few inches after an Amtrak train slammed into his delivery truck, splitting it in half and missing him by just a couple of inches

Sloan Mattingly tragically died after being buried in a sand hole she was digging with her older brother Maddox. Footage showed crowds of beachgoers trying to help the two children

Kennedy Littledike had to have her leg amputated after a terrifying car crash in May 2021, but she now has a prosthetic leg and is in a happy relationship with her new boyfriend

A teenager who survived a horrifying car crash in 2021 has become a public speaker, sharing the story that left her without a leg after her car spun out of control and she ended up hanging from a power line for an hour

Lynne Harvey, 72, was struck in the car park of Greenhill Social and Bowling Club in Burnley on Tuesday. Police are appealing for witnesses to come forward

Police have issued a new appeal for witnesses after a four-month-old baby boy involved in a head-on collision on Monday in the Leeds area tragically died in hospital

At least nine people are trapped insidetThe Copler Mine, operated by Anagold Mining in Ilic, Turkey, after a landslide containing soil feared to contain traces of cyanide

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT The man unexpectedly had his leg ripped off in a horror accident after attempting to be the first to get off the ferry - as gruesome images show one of his shredded limbs

The controversial camp in North Carolina that claims to help 'struggling' teens allegedly ignored the youngster's requests to be separated from her older female assailant

Minnie Rae Dunn fell 60ft after climbing on a sofa on a flat balcony. Her dad Daniel Kenney said he still has a lot of questions over his daughter's death in Buckland, Portsmouth, Hampshire

A man and a child have died in a three-vehicle crash in Lightwater, Surrey, and two other people have been taken to hospital with "serious" injuries from the incident last night

The man, whose name has not yet been released, was on a firefighting course in a town in Brazil's Brasilia state when he plummetted to the ground during an abseiling exercise

A man was killed when he lost his balance and fell into a feed mixer at his family farm in Bayindir, Turkey, and got caught in the shaft of the machine in front of relatives

Eight-year-old Adalynn Pierce was tragically mowed down before her mother's eyes by Kaylee Andre, 25, as the young girl boarded a halted school bus

WARNING GRAPHIC CONTENT: A brush with a rusty sign, led to a small cut that left the then 35-year-old with gangrene, and set to lose her arm, or even her life, in San Antonio, Texas

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES Scaffolder Steve Gilmore turned up for work as usual on a Monday morning in Crawley, Sussex – but moments later he was left with life-changing injuries

Avid photographer Jonathan Fielding and his two friends went to take snaps near the edge of a cliff near Moonscape Overlook in Utah before the teen slipped and fell to his death

A New Hampshire resident was rescued from a trash truck after falling into a bin while throwing out her rubbish - and survived as the waste was compacted four times