51 h. ago Driver killed in tragic crash after revving engine of dream car for girlfriend, inquest hears

Benjamin Gladman died after he lost control of his Ferrari earlier this year

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3 d. ago Luke Littler offers sympathies after tragic car incident leads to him missing tournament

Luke Littler missed the registration deadline for Players Championship 33 in Wigan this afternoon - and the 18-year-old has since revealed the reason why this was the case

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3 d. ago Classic car fan crushed to death as he worked under vehicle in garage

The wife of John Philip Waterson returned home to make the tragic discovery of his body. The small sports car had been kept at his home for 10 years before it “unknowingly collapsed”.

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3 d. ago Funeral home worker's tragic last voicemail for wife as he was crushed by concrete tomb

A family has been left searching for answers after funeral home employee Angel Anthony Rojas was crushed to death beneath a burial vault, making one last tragic call to his wife as he waited for help

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3 d. ago Retired engineer was crushed to death by his vintage sports car in a 'tragic accident' after it fell on top of him

John Waterson's wife, Amanda, found him trapped under the classic motor, which he had owned for ten years, when she got home from work.

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3 d. ago Widow of man crushed to death by giant urinal sues employer for £200,000

The retractable toilet unit has become an increasingly familiar sight in London’s West End and is designed to be lowered below ground during the day then raised up for use by revellers at night

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1 week ago Funeral worker in Texas dies after being crushed by burial vault

Burial vaults typically weigh over 2,000 pounds and are used to prevent graves from sinking

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1 week ago Family pays tribute to 'loving and fun' mum who died in car crash

Lauren Surridge died in September in a tragic car accident

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1 week ago No charges for mom whose daughter fell overboard on Disney cruise while posing for photos: ‘Merely accidental’

The girl’s dad jumped 49 feet off the Disney Dream ship in June to save his daughter

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1 week ago Girl falls 50ft from Disney Cruise while posing for photo near railing

The mystery around the girl's fall from the Disney Cruise ship has been solved. Authorities have confirmed she accidentally fell in after she was asked to pose next to the railing

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2 w. ago Gardener crushed by quad bike at £2.5m estate as he sprayed weedkiller was not given safety gear or training by couple employing him, court hears

Defence chief Nicholas Prest, 71, and his wife Anthea, 70, are accused of failing to prepare gardener Paul Marsden to carry out his tasks before he was crushed to death whilst working at their property.

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2 w. ago Widow of father who was crushed to death by falling tree branch calls for change in law to avoid repeat tragedy

Fiona Hall, 56, has been left heartbroken since her husband Chris, 48, was killed by a three-ton bough from a 134ft lime tree while he was walking their dog in August 2020.

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2 w. ago Top Italian winemaker is crushed to death in his own grape press in freak accident at his family's cellar

Matteo Forner, 44, was carrying out end-of-day cleaning when the machine suddenly activated, trapping his neck and killing him instantly.

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3 w. ago Tragic details of woman's Fiat 500 cleaning death as 'window crushed her neck'

Bernadette Delmotte, 60, was cleaning her Fiat 500 in the French village of Bissy-sur-Fley when she was killed in a freak accident, with her family and friends left devastated

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3 w. ago Terrifying new footage captures moment elephant flips over safari canoe and tries to crush woman to death

Panicked holidaymakers were left clinging for their lives after the furious animal stormed toward them in the Okavango Delta. Astonishingly, they filmed their own attack.

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3 w. ago ‘A club nobody wanted to be a part of’: Families of Americans killed by Israel face uphill climb to justice

Dozens of American citizens have been killed by Hamas and Israel – but the US government has taken a very different approach to the latterWithin hours after they were told that Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi had been killed by an Israeli sniper while at a protest in the West Bank last year, her family was on a phone call with the parents of Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza more than two decades ago.The families were introduced by a mutual contact in Washington state, where both Corrie and 26-year-old Eygi had lived. There were other parallels in their stories: Corrie was protesting against the demolition of a Palestinian family’s home in Rafah when a soldier drove over her; Eygi was at a protest against settlement expansion near Nablus. Both had traveled to the region with the International Solidarity Movement, a group that for years has brought foreign activists to stand with Palestinians against Israel’s occupation. An Israeli ...

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