All news on the topic: Accidents

Scott Daddy, 28, Leslie Forbes, 70, and Patrick Hibbins, 59, tragically died after the 4x4 they were travelling in plunged into the River Esk in North Yorkshire

A British mother and son have died in an avalanche while skiing in poor weather conditions in the French Alps and a British teenager has been seriously injured in a high-speed sledge crash in Austria

Three of the same family were killed when their car was hit head on as they travelled back from a basketball game. Police say the driver of the other car, who was also killed, had a blood alcohol content three times the legal limit

The car smashed into a lamppost, before ploughing into a home in Heyhouses Lane, St Annes, Lancashire - with two men who were inside the car have been left with serious injuries

Fears are growing for an artist from Brighton who was washed out to sea off the coast of Thailand when the diving boat she was on was swamped and then sunk by brutal seas

WARNING, DISTRESSING CONTENT: Children and their parents watched on in horror when a man dressed as Grandfather Frost - Russia's Father Christmas - fell more than 240ft to his death in Chelyabinsk, Russia

Thankfully, little Raphael Levi dos Santos Rocha only sustained cuts and bruises to his face, but needed stitches after being sucked down the storm drain in Cruz Alta, Brazil

Maria do Carmo, 49, was seen perched on one of the ride's metal benches and speaking to a group on the ground in Brazil before the ride started and she fell face down

News-gathering colleagues have been left shocked and in mourning following the deaths of two people who were killed after their chopper came down while returning from an assignment in New Jersey

The freak accident saw Carmela Tutong lose her balance on a steel railing and tumble into the landscape illuminated with lights in Dapitan City, The Philippines

Three "young" children have been taken to hospital, with one in a serious condition, along with a woman who had to be cut free from a car following a collision in Merseyside

Beckett Wayne, a nine-month-old baby boy has been left orphaned after his parents, 24-year-old Jacob Hahn and 22-year-old Savannah Harding died in a car crash

A 9-year-old boy survived an internal 'decapitation,' stunning doctors as he made a full recovery after a horrific motor vehicle accident outside of Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas

Customers enjoying a meal out at Ramona in Manchester were left shocked when falling debris pierced the restaurant's canopy, causing some to believe they were being bombed

Heloisa Cristina Heliodoro was given protective clothing and a helmet but received no warning about her long hair, which became entangled in the go-kart's machinery with devastating consequences

A chip pan fire ravaged a one-bedroom bungalow in York, and was made worse by owner Barry Tordoff's piles of clutter - but now the 76-year-old has vowed to change his ways

Brian Timmins has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for his part in the gruesome death of David Willis, who was killed by an industrial shredder after being told to clear a jam

The tragedy took place as the man, his daughter, and three grandchildren, collected sand from the Mun River in Satuek District, lower north-eastern Thailand, to make improvements to their home

Miraculously the 18-year-old, who has not been identified in the Russian press, managed to survive the freak accident that saw him being dragged along the track by the juggernaut in Moscow

Two people, including security guard Gaby Hutchinson, were killed when fans without tickets tried to force their way into a show at the O2 Brixton Academy in south London

Quantavious Eason, a third-grade student, was arrested by Senatobia police in Mississippi after an officer saw him relieving himself next to his mum's car while she was inside a solicitor's office

An unnamed circus acrobat was rushed to James Paget University Hospital in Great Yarmouth after an accident performing the Giant Wheel of Death with his brother

A massive blast at a guest house completely destroyed the property in Pennsylvania but a man inside managed to escape with his life while witnesses said they are shocked he survived

Thuy Le, 49, died at her family bakery in Sydney, Australia, after being electrocuted with an investigation now underway and tributes have poured in for the mum-of-two

In a daring nighttime operation, Inyo County Search and Rescue successfully freed a hiker trapped for seven hours beneath a massive boulder in the Inyo Mountains