All news on the topic: Accidents

Zachary Porter, 20, from Illinois, was walking on tidal mud flats with his friends in an Alaska estuary when he suddenly became stuck as the tide came in, according to police

Daegen Vaughn, 19, from Summerville, Georgia, US, was riding a jet ski on Weiss Lake in Alabama on Saturday at around 10.30pm with his friend when they suddenly ran aground

Distraught children looked on after a father was hit by a car and killed as he successfully herded a family of ducks off a busy intersection - moments after he was clapped for his heroic efforts

WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES: A man suffered horrific injuries when he was impaled by a seven-foot-long steel bar in China, but he survived the incident and was taken to the hospital for treatment

At least 59 people have been hurt since the cycle lane was opened in Keynsham’s high street last year as a result of its two raised kerbs with a road safety audit set to be held

Mujtaba Raza was left unconscious after falling down the stairs at home and his family was told by doctors that he had a 50/50 chance of survival due to heavy blood loss

A Keegan Fettis, four, his mother Gemma Hobbins and her friend Cody Smith were killed when the blue Ford Focus they were travelling in hit another car in Worcestershire

Heitor Brito Wuaden died and was buried Sunday - Mother's Day in Brazil - after falling unconscious while playing in the family car outside his home in Guaranta do Norte

Carl O'Keeffe's body was "compressed" for hours in a fibreglass indoor cave at a tourist attraction, his inquest in Cumbria heard yesterday, and he was declared dead in hospital

Adam Michael Kenyon, 30, suffered fatal injuries in a collision with a van on the A470 near Betws-y-Coed on Saturday afternoon. He lived in the Kinmel Bay area of Conwy

Steve Jeffrey went to work in London on April 20, as he usually did, before a tragic accident led to the beloved dad-of-two dying under unknown circumstances, leaving his family heartbroken

A mum has criticised behaviour that occurred in a park in Huyton, Liverpool, claiming it could cause children 'serious injury' and 'scars for life'

Sausage dog puppy Dash jumped and was killed instantly after owner Roxi Greenwood slammed on the breaks when a brick was thrown at her car from a bridge in York

Frank Ball was dragged upside down on an escalator, impaling his head and trapping his leg, and his story features in the first episode of the latest series of 999: Critical Condition tonight

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONETENT - The people had managed to survive a horror bus crash on Monday in Nicaragua, Central America, but were killed moments later by the huge swarm of bees

Dean Delahaye, 35, from Devon, lost eight fingers in a horrific work accident using a metal rolling machine leaving him unable to hold his newborn baby and needing 24 hour care

Jonathan Rodriguez, 23, died when one of their sons climbed into his truck, pulled a faulty gear shift and ran him over in Santaquin, Utah - now his widow is pregnant

The unnamed 17-year-old lad is thought to have fallen into a sand dune after someone dug a hole on the beach in North Carolina in the US - prompting locals to call for digging holes in public areas to be banned

Brit couple Janet Brassington and James Smith were among 17 passengers injured in a bus crash in Thailand where the vehicle veered off the road after the driver allegedly fell asleep

The roof of the ride - holding the chain swings - collapsed as it was operating at top speed in an accident branded "simply unacceptable" by officials in Orenburg, Russia

Hannah Serfass, from Florida, US, was competing in a jumping event at Fox Lea Farms on April 30 when her 12-year-old horse tripped and suffered a rotational fall before landing on her head

A 17-year-old boy who was found dead after he and a group of friends got into difficulty in the River Thames has been named locally as his friends paid tribute

The swing, which had been designed for people with physical disabilities, had only been installed three days earlier when Marcus Vinicius da Silva Melo Junior died in a freak playground accident

Aaron Delannoy, 25, died of multiple injuries when he fell from a zipline in Belgium on April 26. Horrified schoolchildren who were visiting the area witnessed the tragic accident

Brayden Bahme, 16, was running during a gym class when he fell over and impaled his eye on a goal post, according to officials at Cheney High School in Washington, USA