All news on the topic: Accidents

Three people were reportedly injured after a car crashed into a bungalow in in a village in Derbyshire. Police, fire and ambulance crews all attended the property believed to belong to an elderly couple in the village of Killamarsh

Two heroic men have descirbed the moment they jumped into save a stricken paraglider who had crashed into the sea in Worthing. Scott Ricketts, 31, and Tim Browne, 35

A group of friends were trekking over the weekend when one slipped and "tumbled a distance", suffering injuries that were "incompatible with life", said a local mountain rescue team

Quick-thinking parents saved their 14-year-old son from being buried alive in the sand after the hole he was digging suddenly collapsed. The brave mum and dad acted quickly when their boy became trapped Anderby Creek, near Skegness, in Lincolnshire

Emma Louise Morris, 28, described as a "darling girl", died following a road crash in North Wales and a four-year-old boy believed to be her son has been left with "life threatening" injuries

Two married couples from Indiana flew to Venice, Florida, to meet some friends and eat dinner at a local restaurant but shortly after the foursome - including an associate director at aerospace giant Raytheon - took off their plane crashed about half a mile offshore

The man crashed down on to a parked car outside a building in the city of Voronezh in southwest Russia on April - but despite the car being wrecked, he was unharmed and even got up to start belting out a tune

Darren Peel lost his arm aged five in a trip to Southport when he ran too close to a plane set to take his family for a tour over the resort and is looking for those who helped him

Two construction workers fall to their death in the 30-foot trench and died despite the efforts to rescue them at a construction site in New York's JFK airport

Jamie Nathaniel, an experienced free diver, had attempted to gather scallops for a barbecue with friends when he got into difficulties, and was saved by the RNLI and paramedics

One person was killed in the carnage with another 28 injured, five of whom were listed in critical condition in hospitals in Belvidere, around 70 miles northwest of Chicago

A woman who plummetted 14,000 ft through the air without a parachute has recalled how she thought she had already died during the fall, in turn thinking she was in heaven and hell

Patricia Borges’ arm went up in flames as the floor of the R.M. Palmer Company chocolate factory in Pennsylvania, US, caved in - but she managed to save her own life by diving into a vat of chocolate which extinguished the fire on her body

Iris Howard, who was hoping for a "fun night", says she was left "traumatised" after being "an inch from being killed", when the roof of the Apollo Theatre in Illinois collapsed while a supporting Death Metal band was playing during a Morbid Angel concert last night

The death of an ex-Marine in the British Virgin Islands earlier this month has left a toddler orphaned. The body of American Robert Safford, of North Carolina, was found floating after a boating accident

Jamie Jones, 17, was killed when his e-bike crashed into a telegraph pole at about 26mph while riding on a cycle path in Deeside, north Wales, and the bike had a max speed of 70mph

Many of the survivors had jumped off the ship, dubbed the MV Lady Mary Joy 3, at the time of the fire - and were quickly rescued by the Philippines coastguard, navy, and local fishermen

Mum-of-three Amanda Chibwe, 31, who was visiting the island of Bermuda from the UK, was pulled from the water on Friday but despite the best efforts of medical staff, she couldn't be saved

The British tourist was visiting the Caribbean island of St Kitts on a group trip alongside his wife and daughter aboard the P&O Britannia when the incident occurred

The unnamed 26-year-old was on holiday in Cala Varques Bay, Majorca when he reportedly misjudged the height of a cliff and fell, landing on rocks below and dying from his injuries

The two officers, members of the Baton Rouge Police Department plunged to their deaths on Sunday morning at the West Baton Rouge Parish

Roxy Phillips, 15, was pronounced dead at the scene in Weymouth after being electrocuted on a railway line, with her heartbroken family paying tribute to the "beautiful" schoolgirl

The tourist, known as Mike, had jumped from a ledge around 100ft up, but when he neared the end of the jump the cord suddenly snapped in two, slamming him into the water

Karis Pringle bought the chips for herself and her nine-year-old son from a Chicken Treat shop in Bunbury, western Australia in 2013 before she started to feel tingling in her mouth

Adam Tate was diagnosed with rare neurological condition Fahr's syndrome in 2014 when a zip wire he was on snapped, causing him to fall on his head, neck and back