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Another terrible escalator accident rattles China
Another day, another devastating escalator accident in China. An employee at Longemont Shopping Mall in Shanghai's Changning district had his foot and part of his leg amputated after becoming trapped in an escalator, according to the South China Morning Post. The worker, identified simply as Zhang, was cleaning the escalator with a mop when he reportedly stepped on it. The mall described the 35-year-old's action as an "improper" one, and said the mop's brush...
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Two youths dead after crashing into water off causeway service road
The day after her birthday, a 14-year-old girl and an 18-year-old friend were killed early Friday when their car plunged into the Old Tampa Bay after crashing through a guardrail.
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Father Who Fled Afghanistan To Escape ISIS Killed By Distracted Driver In Sacramento
A father is dead and his eight-year-old son is clinging to life at a local hospital after a car hit them Sunday morning. Malaly Rafi leaves for the hospital where her 8-year-old son is clinging to life. Her husband Mustafa just died and these neighbors are all she has. “We were colleagues, we were friends,” said Latif Yama.
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2,200 Baby Pigs Escape on Ohio Highway After Truck Crashes (auto play video)
Talk about hogging the road. A semi truck carrying 2,200 baby pigs tipped over Monday on an Ohio highway, officials said. The accident happened on U.S. Route 35 in Xenia, which is just southeast of Dayton, officials said. After the crash was reported at about 7:00 p.m. ET, both west and east bound lanes of the bypass were closed, according to NBC affiliate WDTN.
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Former All Black Jerry Collins killed in car accident
Former All Black Jerry Collins and his wife have died in a tragic car crash in France. Collins and partner Alana Madill died instantly in the incident in the south of France and their three-month-old baby, Ayla, is in a critical condition after being airlifted to a hospital in Montpellier. Collins' agent, Tim Castle, has been appointed as the family spokesperson.
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My Toilet Broke, And I Almost Killed Myself Trying To Fix It
As I hopped up the stairs, the sound got louder, and when I made it up, there was a puddle of water growing outward from the bathroom door. I opened the door and the toilet was overflowing.
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D.A. Charges Bumble Bee Tuna After Worker Baked to Death in Industrial Oven
On Oct. 11, 2012, Bumble Bee Foods worker Jose Melena entered an industrial oven at the company's Santa Fe Springs plant in order to load it with racks of tuna cans. The oven was used to sterilize the products, and part of the 62-year-old's job was to get those cans properly placed in the 35-foot cylindrical oven. That day co-workers began loading cans of their own, unaware that Melena was deep inside, prosecutors said.
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Cop in wrong-way fatal crash had blood-alcohol level 3 times legal limit, report says
The Linden cop who drove the wrong way on a Staten Island highway, crashing and killing two passengers, had a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit, according to an NBC report. The report says Pedro Abad, 27, had a BAC of .24 percent; the legal limit is .08. Abad was the driver in the March 20 wrong-way crash that killed a fellow officer and a passenger - and critically injured Abad and another officer - when he struck a...
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Watch the moment a new Routemaster bus careered out of control on the streets of London
This is the terrifying moment a new Routemaster bus crashes after accelerating out of control through London’s streets.
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Driver ignores mortally injured woman by roadside... and later discovers she’s his mother
A driver who ignored an injured elderly woman by the roadside later found out that the victim was his own mother, the Anhui Business Daily reported. The man from Nanling county in Wuhu city was on his way to visit his mother early one morning last week when he spotted the badly hurt old woman next to the road. “My car does not have a dashboard recorder, so I didn’t stop,” he was quoted as saying.
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Seven people injured in ski lift accident at Maine’s Sugarloaf Mountain
A packed ski lift abruptly halted and rolled backward at Maine’s Sugarloaf Mountain on Saturday morning, leaving seven adults injured — four of them hospitalized — and more than 200 skiers and snowboarders dangling for up to an hour and a half, resort officials said.
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68 dead in Bangladesh ferry accident
At least 68 people died after a passenger ferry capsized in Bangladesh, and the death toll could rise, officials said. The double-decker ferry sank after it was hit by a cargo vessel around midday Sunday, police and witnesses said. Passengers on the ferry's lower deck may have been trapped.
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American Horror Story's Ben Woolf Struck by Car Mirror and in Critical Condition
Ben Woolf, who played Meep on American Horror Story: Freak Show, was struck in the head by a car mirror and is now in critical condition, TMZ reports. Everything you've missed on American Horror Story so far. The 4'4" actor was crossing a street in Hollywood Thursday night when a passing SUV struck Woolf in the head. The actor was taken to the hospital where he remains in intensive care.
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One killed, 2 injured on set of Martin Scorsese's movie 'Silence'
A structure on the Taiwan set of an upcoming Martin Scorsese movie collapsed this week, killing a studio construction worker and injuring two more, Taipei police said. The workers were repairing a building used for scenery when it collapsed Thursday, police spokesman Chen Chung-Ren said. Two men were hospitalized, one in serious condition. Scorsese's new feature, "Silence," tells the story of two Jesuit priests in 17th century Japan...
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Firefighters extinguishing a car fire goes wrong
The fire fighters trying to put out a car fire, but the car starts rolling and it's running down a steep hill. This happened in Notodden in Norway in 2012.
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Basketball player likely died from chewing gum in sleep
A Pennsylvania university student and basketball player likely inhaled chewing gum into her lungs while asleep before being found dead in her dormitory over the weekend. The Washington County coroner's office said 21-year-old Shanice Clark of Toronto was found unresponsive at about 3 a.m. Sunday at California University of Pennsylvania. University officials said they were "deeply saddened" by the death of the 6-foot senior forward, who was...
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NJ Turnpike I-95 Crash due to Black Ice
I was blocked by two trucks on south bound I-95 at exit 9 in NJ (New Brunswick exit). I only wanted to take a picture while i was awaiting for them to clear up... And then I heard a noise from behind...I was barely missed.Once I turned off camera, I called in 911 and reported the accident. After that I came to the truck and the rest of the cars to verify they were alright. After arrival of NJ State Trooper and his dismissal confirming that he does not require my presence, I left the scene.
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Video Shows Boy Thrown Into Air By Sewer Blast
A nine-year-old boy is recovering in hospital after a sewer explosion left him with a serious head injury and broken bones.
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Dozens die in Pakistan bus inferno
More than 50 people have been killed and more injured after a bus collided with an oil tanker near the Pakistani city of Karachi, doctors say. The tanker was reportedly speeding and travelling on the wrong side of the road when it hit the bus head-on. Both vehicles burst into flames. Some passengers travelling on the roof of the bus were able to jump to safety but many of those inside were trapped.
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Mumbai: Hospital lets biker die over Rs 9,000 shortfall in fee
Borivli’s Karuna hospital proved itself a misnomer. Showing no pity, it refused to admit an injured biker after he met with an accident on Wednesday evening, following which he succumbed to his injuries. Police said the hospital authorities demanded Rs 20,000 as fee for treatment, and even after they were offered Rs 11,000 by the people who had brought the biker, they refused to admit him, insisting that the fee ought to be paid in full.
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