All news on the topic: Accidents

Riain Brennan-Byrne had been playing with a swing made from a blue cord wrapped around the branches of a tree while visiting his mum in Leicestershire during the summer holidays

Bridgewater State University student Ava Harlow, 20, from Massachusetts, US, became trapped underneath a moving train at the BU Central Station in Boston on January 27

A fundraiser has now been launched to support the family of 23-year-old Jack Carne, from Yorkshire, who friends described as a "true gentleman" and the "nicest lad you'll ever meet".

People riding a ferris wheel were left hanging upside down after the ride broke down. Horrifying footage showed people dangling upside down in their seats in India's Sahibganj district yesterday

Devastated friends and family took to social media to pay tribute to the climber, named locally as Jack Carne, describing him as a "true gentleman" and the "nicest lad you'll ever meet"

Carluccio Sartori was hit by an avalanche in the South Tyrol region in Italy. He survived being buried for 20 hours and when he was rescued, he could still talk despite having a body temperature of 24C

Estefanía Sanchez was at work like any other day when she tripped on an escalator and fell, but too embarrassed to fess up, the 24-year-old pretended she fainted and ended up in hospital where doctors realised she needed emergency surgery

The US Coast Guard triangulated where the distress call was coming from and launched nearby vessels and a chopper to the scene, where Petty Officer Michael Clark dived into the ocean to rescue a yacht captain as his vessel sank at the mouth of the Columbia River between Oregon and Washington state

Shahid Iqbal or 'Chad' was 11 years old when a shock nearly killed him. He has spent years fighting to survive his accident and endured almost two years in hospital where he had three surgeries

Olwen Collier had been decorating a pub in Carmarthenshire for her daughter's surprise 50th birthday party when she fell into a cellar and sustained fatal injures

WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES - Limara Greenwood from Bridgwater, Somerset, bought a second-hand e-scooter to get to the shops as she feared she would be judged if using a mobility scooter, but she has regretted it

Police in New South Wales said the boy had been in the car throughout the day before a man who was known to the three-year-old raised the alarm when he returned to the vehicle

The miniscule capsule, which measures 8mm by 6mm, contains cauesium - which is commonly used in radiation gauges and emits dangerous emissions at the equivalent of undergoing 10 X-rays in an hour. It could cause skin burns and even cancer

Mackenzie Croxford-Cook and a group of friends snuck into a funfair in Dover in August last year, the morning before it was due to open, and began climbing on rides, leading to the tragic accident that saw him lose his life

An inquest on Thursday at Cheshire Coroners' Court heard how dad-of-two Rob McHarry collapsed while jogging in Portugal with friends from his running club

Puttawat Kamwan, 34, was found by his work colleagues in Thailand on a bed at his home where he appears to have died from an electric shock having fallen asleep while touching his charging mobile phone

The dad-of-two, who was in his his sixties, was bitten by a suspected Eastern Brown Snake - one of the most deadly serpents in Australia and the world - despite being used to handling the reptiles, according to his neighbour

A 34-year-old man is confirmed to have died at the scene following a 'report of an incident' at a recycling centre in South Wales - South Wales Police have begun an investigation

Reginaldo Aparecido de Franca had filmed himself paramotoring over a park in Brazil just minutes before he tragically crashed to the ground and sustained fatal injuries

Footage shows the eight-year-old boy wading out into the water in New South Wales, Australia, before falling down after a bolt of lightning suddenly flashes across the sky

A children's game took a dark and terrifying turn when the youngster, named only as Fahim, ended up as cargo after hiding inside a shipping container while a boat was docked waiting to take it overseas

Keira Johnson had been filming an advert for a London-based agency when she suffered 'serious back injuries' after a mechanical tree fell early and crushed her on set in Poland

An air ambulance landed in the middle of Leicester Square after reports of a man being 'seriously injured' when he became trapped underneath a hydraulic urinal in Central London

The tot, who was just two years old, was pronounced dead at his family home in Skibbereen, in Ireland's County Cork on Wednesday after paramedics were unable to save him

Lewis Birch had taken his young cousin Greyson on a day out before stopping at Swanwick Lake, but in the brief moments the 18-year-old looked away, the toddler fell into the lake leading to his tragic death