23 h. ago Doctor paralysed with 'catastrophic injuries' in Scots bike crash wins £4.5m settlement

Dr Daniel Gordon has won £4.5m in a settlement after being left paralysed from a horror bike crash.

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55 h. ago Crash at 20: is it the worst best picture winner of all time?

Paul Haggis’s interconnected drama about racism in Los Angeles remains one of the most embarrassing Oscar decisions ever madeIt doesn’t take long for Paul Haggis’s Crash to end up on the shortest of shortlists for the worst film ever to win best picture at the Oscars, maybe the single worst in the color era since 1954’s Around the World in 80 Days. At the time, it was a dark-horse favorite to upset the widely acclaimed Brokeback Mountain, premiering a full year earlier at the Toronto film festival before riding an unexpected cultural wave to awards-season glory. Now 20 years later, it feels like a “you had to be there” moment that’s hard to explain, because the movie itself is so obviously rancid that it suggests few answers on its own. The job is probably better suited to cultural anthropologists than film critics.Nonetheless, Haggis’s ensemble piece about racial animus in Los Angeles seems to have struck a chord with, well, the many Academy voters from Los Angeles who reside in th...

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9 d. ago Speedboat's 200mph record attempt goes horribly wrong after being caught by gust of WIND on Arizona lake

A 200mph speedboat record attempt at the Desert Storm Shootout ended in a spectacular crash after a sudden wind gust - but the racers' surprising comeback stunned everyone.

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1 week ago Passenger on bus involved in crash describes chaotic scenes with smashed windows and passenger bloodied

'Everyone seemed really shocked'

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1 week ago New London man nearly hit trooper while fleeing Windsor crash, police say

New London man nearly hit trooper while fleeing Windsor crash, police say  CT Insider

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2 w. ago Brit tourist, 22, is killed in paragliding horror crash along with his pilot after wing broke and they plunged onto rocks during tandem flight in Turkey

The Briton, 22, and his pilot, 29, leaped from the runway at the Babadag paragliding spot in Fethiye in a tandem jump at around 11.45am on Wednesday.

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2 w. ago International footballer who plays with Liverpool ace Luis Diaz in horror car crash

Willer Ditta, who has lined up for Colombia alongside Liverpool winger Luis Diaz, was involved in a horror car crash with another vehicle carrying a family

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2 w. ago ‘Highly respected’ school business manager died with husband in cable car crash

Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among the four people who died in the crash on Thursday at Monte Faito.

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2 w. ago British couple died after ‘cable car brakes failed 20 seconds from top’

Graeme Winn, 65 and Elaine Winn, 58, were among the four people who died in the crash near Naples on Thursday.

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2 w. ago Naples cable car deaths: 'Lovely' Brit couple 'were enjoying retirement' say heartbroken pals

Friends of Elaine and Graeme Winn - who tragically died in the horrific cable car crash in Naples - have paid tribute to the couple, who were two of four people killed on Thursday

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2 w. ago Foreign Office supporting family of UK couple who died in Italy cable car crash

Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among four people who died in incident on ThursdayThe UK Foreign Office has said it is supporting the family of a couple who were killed in a cable car crash in Naples.Graeme Winn, 65, and Elaine Winn, 58, were among four people who died on Thursday at Monte Faito in the town of Castellammare di Stabia, near Naples in southern Italy. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Prince Andrew wipes his brow as he's spotted riding in Windsor Park days after abuse accuser Virginia Giuffre broke cover following crash she said would kill her

The Duke of York, 65, dressed all in navy blue, was seen wiping his brown while out riding in Windsor days after his accuser Virginia Giuffre was released from hospital.

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3 w. ago Motorcyclist killed after Ducati bike crashes with wall on Highland road

Police are keen to speak to two other bikers who stopped to help, but the pair left the scene before officers arrived.

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