All news on the topic: Accidents

A boy aged eight was killed in north London on Friday after being hit by a car. A witness said the child's dad collapsed on the floor and medics tried to wake him

Heartbroken family members came to the scene of the burned out flat in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, to console eachother. A neighbour pointed out chalk drawings on the sidewalk that the two young girls made while playing last week.

Three pilots died and one was taken to a hospital following a tragic helicopter crash in Alaska, officials have said. The cause of the crash is not clear and an investigation is ongoing

Since opening in March 2022, at least 59 people have been hurt on the cycle lane in Keynsham High Street, Somerset, with pensioner Dave Dawson becoming the latest injured

Official figures from the ONS have been analysed by taxi insurance firm Zego - taken from fatal and non-fatal accidents across the UK - to determine the most dangerous areas for drivers

Loren Schauers had his body amputated below the waist in a hemicorporectomy after falling 50ft in a forklift and being crushed while working, but he hasn't let that hold him back from enjoying life

Ivan Brown was on holiday in India and taking a photo of the Himalayas when he fell and grabbed a live wire for balance, an inquest into the former pub landlord's death has heard

A woman has told how her partner Gavin Andrews was killed on Walmersley Road in Bury, and she wonders "how many more lives will be lost" on one of the "worst" roads

Kyle Khan, 26, and Meesha Afzal, 22 died instantly when the car they were in, driven by Eidnun Liaquat, now 28, ploughed into a wall in Solihull

A steam engine crashed through a house and into the living room in a bizarre incident in Great Dunmow, Essex, this afternoon. The driver was left in a 'state of shock'

Indian climber Anurag Maloo has been rescued from a deep crevasse the size of a skyscraper on the slopes of Mount Anna Purna in Nepal, the world's 10th tallest mountain

Issuing safety advice the Crantock Surf Life Saving Club said it wanted to educate people to enjoy Cornwall beaches safely after the incident

The tragedy was Yemen's deadliest in years that was not related to the country's long-running war, and came ahead of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, which marks the end of Ramadan later this week

A director working on an Agatha Christie play is suing a theatre for more than £3 million after a fall through an unopened trapdoor left her 'partially paraplegic', her lawyers say

The lions escaped from their enclosure at the circus in the Henan Province of China, sending the audience fleeing and carrying their children in fear of the jungle cats

Hubbard and Son's funeral home service in Colorado, US, were transferring a body in the back of a hearse for an organ donation on January 29 when the driver lost control in icy conditions

A climbing legend who summited Mount Everest an incredible 10 times has died descending another mountain in the Himalayas, as Noel Hanna died on Mount Annapurna on Monday

Ausra Plungiene, 56, disappeared while out walking her dog in Snowdonia earlier this month and was later found by rescue teams, leading to tributes from her heartbroken family

Penelope Cossaro, 7, was at the church near her school in Udine, Italy, when she ran to the font and pulled herself up, causing her to fall and the marble object to crush her

Horrifying footage on social media showed the moment a Chinese trapeze artist fell to her death during a performance with her husband. Sun Moumou leaves behind two children

The 73-year-old man, from Victoria, Australia, was driving through the car was when he popped out of his vehicle to enter an access code and got crushed trying to return

Emergency services rushed to the scene on the M6 in Staffordshire after a lorry was sliced in half and burst into flames after crashing between Junctions 12 and 13

Julio Armando Buelvas Salinas was crushed to death by a freight lift at Comerpes SA seafood warehouse in Cartagena, Columbia, on his 26th birthday - with his family waiting at his house with a cake

A major road in Wood Green, London has been closed following the incident, which reportedly saw two women hospitalised in a critical condition after one fell from a building onto the other

A small plane was seen descending and crashing into the sea off the coast of Mexico killing a two-year-old child and the pilot who are believed to have been trapped inside while four others were rushed to hospital