Tag: accident
Midas Touch Gets a Little Too Personal
You know those Midas commercials, “Trust the Midas touch”? Maybe there should be a disclaimer on how far that ‘touch’ really goes. These photos were shot in Grand Forks, ND on the weekend of a Midas sign...
Platypus is found to have a cocktail of genomes
The Platypus is one of nature's strangest animals. It has a bill like a duck, fur like a mammal, and venom like a snake. But scientists in Australia say they have now mapped the genetic makeup of the platypus, and...
British woman, 24, plunges to death in French Alp...
A 24-year-old British woman, from Kent and has not been named, slipped on a patch of black ice while scaling the 13,000 foot Tour Rond peak near Chamoix, has died in a climbing accident in the French Alps. She fell...
Sydney taxi attacks fence
At midday today a Sydney taxi left the road in Wanganella st Balgowlah and made short work of destroying a fence and bringing down overhead wires
Toyota recalls 90,000 Highlanders over seat belts
Toyota is recalling 90,000 2008 Highlanders and Highlander hybrid sport utility vehicles due to potential problems with securing child safety seats in the third row seats."The locking mechanism on the seat belts...
18 dead, 45 injured in tour bus crash in Hong Kong
UPDATE: 9:25 PM EST - May 1The Assoicated Press is now reporting that 18 people died and 44 were injured in the bus crash in Hong Kong yesterday. The bus was carrying 61 passengers on a Christian May Day outing.A...
8 tourists killed in Egypt bus accident
UPDATE: 2:44 AM ESTThe BBC is reporting that eight people have died in the bus crash."Eight people have died after a bus carrying North American and European tourists crashed and caught fire in Egypt's Sinai...
Five die in Sydney harbour crash
Five people have been killed in a collision between a fishing trawler and a small cabin crusier in Australia's Sydney harbour."Nine others were injured as all 14 people aboard the smaller boat were thrown into Sydney...
Army: Accident caused Iraqi pipeline fire, 4 Crit...
Army: Accident caused Iraqi pipeline fire, 4 Critically InjuredAccording to the Kuwaiti news agency (KUNA) four of the Iraqis injured in the pipeline fire were in critical condition.Update: "April 26 (Bloomberg) -- An Iraqi oil pipeline south of Baghdad has been repaired...
Semi Truck Crashes Into Chicago CTA Train Station...
Semi Truck Crashes Into Cermak/Chinatown CTA Station 2 Woman Dead, 19 Injured, 10 in Critical Condition"Update 10:45 pm - Service on the Red Line was fully restored less than three hours after the accident, said CTA spokeswoman Catherine Hosinski."Engineers determined...
Most Injured Finns Returning Home by Tuesday
"An extra flight for relatives of the victims of Saturday's bus crash left Monday morning for Malaga, Spain. The plane is to return to Finland around midnight Monday carrying lightly injured tourists and their relatives. Another flight is scheduled to transport relatives of...
At least 39 dead in India bus accident
A horrific driving accident in India has taken many lives, many of them children."At least 39 people have been killed after a bus plunged into a river in the western Indian state of Gujarat, a local official has said.Most of the dead are children who were travelling to a...
DC Car Nosedives over Yuma Str Planter
Washington, DC – This afternoon an automobile jumped over a foot high planter to land nose down on the opposite 6 foot drop side on Yuma Street less than a block from Connecticut Avenue. Two ambulances on the...
Toyota Recalls 539,500 Corollas, Matrixes
Do you have a rattling window on your Corolla or Matrix? Your vehicle might be part of Toyota's huge recall announced today, for 2003-2004 models sold in the United States. "WASHINGTON — Toyota Motor Corp. is...
BRITISH ESTABLISHMENT GET THEIR 'ACCIDENT' VERDIC...
"Protestors outside the 'Royal' Courts of 'Justice' shout "It's all an MI5 cover-up!"After six months - and 21 hours of deliberations - the quasi-inquest into the deaths of Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed returned a...
