All news on the topic: Accidents

A teenage brother and sister were orphaned after a horror crash left their entire family dead — their parents and two younger brothers. Now, their uncle is scrambling to raise money for funerals and care

The teen was driving her sister and niece home from school near Phelan, California, when the car collided with a van killing the two of them and leaving the family distraught

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT. Nathy Odinson, 33, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, plunged to his death from a 29-storey apartment complex in Pattaya, Thailand, after his parachute failed to deploy

Marie Cunningham and her friend Grace Foulds were killed after being hit by a car in Merseyside in November 2021. Marie's family said they had no chance to say goodbye

Nathy Odinson fell from the 29th floor of an apartment building in Pattaya, Thailand, and, although paramedics dashed to the scene, the base jumper could not be saved

Binyomin Zachariah was tragically killed when a faulty radiator started releasing a dangerous amount of steam while he slept in his bedroom. One day before, he took his first steps

Brandon Alexander suffered a skateboarding accident in 2019 and had to have the entire left side of his skull removed. Since then, his life has never been the same

Alex Weamer-Lee was at Jordan Willis' home on January 7 and said that when he left at around midnight, everyone was alive. David Harrington, Ricky Johnson, and Clayton McGeeney were found dead on January 9

Jamie Bellerby, 27, received several messages on WhatsApp and Facebook, sent a voice note, and made some calls while returning from work. Stuart Murphy, 39, tragically died in the crash

Hibernian FC, a team in the Scottish Women's Premier League, said it is going to donate all the money from this weekend's fixture against Motherwell FC to Julie McLaren's family

Six people have tragically died in a house fire in Noorvik, Alaska, local authorities said. The home was destroyed in the blaze, which is believed to have started near a stove

Jordan Willis, who hosted four friends at his Kansas City home for a watch party, is not a suspect in the case, say police, who are awaiting autopsy and toxicology reports

A professional dancer living in New York City but originally from the UK collapsed and died after eating a cookie that had been mislabelled at a local supermarket

Actor Herbert Coward, who played the infamous Toothless Man in 'Deliverance', died in a car crash after leaving a medical appointment in North Carolina on Wednesday

A man has been arrested on suspicion of arson after a 'loud' house explosion in Leicester left another man seriously injured and caused nearby flats to be evacuated

Diogo Moreira, who is an Amazon delivery driver, reacted swiftly after the large explosion had rocked the flat in the Beaumont Leys suburb of Leicester this afternoon

The explosion in Beaumont Leys, Leicester, which happened this afternoon, has left one man with serious injuries, Leicestershire Police said as it investigates the blast

Retired nurse Andrew Barker, 56, was killed when he fell down an exposed manhole on his way home in Bradford, West Yorkshire, after Storm Isha blew away nearby safety barriers

A man killed when the Hyandai car he was a frontseat passenger in collided with a down tree in Grangemouth, Fife, during Storm Isha has been named as beloved family man James Johnstone

Majiah Washington, 18, ran to save a baby after a power line fell on top of a car in Portland, Oregon, killing three people - despite knowing she could have been electrocuted

The US Marine Corps called 911 after a F-35 fighter jet went missing in South Carolina in September - and a dispatcher was left confused as the location of the incident was unclear

Pacific police are offering a cash reward for information about a suspect who struck and killed 59-year-old Dal Groshong, who barely survived a prior vehicular accident in 1985.

Mum Kayla Robinson, 41, from Winlaton, Tyne and Wear, was lifting her River Island crossbody bag over her head when the zip stuck under a nostril in a freak accident

Elyas Marshall Rodriguez, 9, died after getting off his school bus on Tuesday afternoon. He was described by his cousin as 'a very bubbly person' who had overcome leukaemia

Aaron Sikorski was only 13 months old when he swallowed the battery while playing at home and was taken to his GP and A&E but a chest x-ray was not taken for another nine days