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Tiger Woods injured in single-car rollover crash, rushed to hospital for surgery
Tiger Woods was in a rollover car accident on Tuesday morning in Los Angeles just after 7 a.m., and hospitalized at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in serious but stable condition due to injuries in the single-vehicle wreck....
Helicopter pilot in Kobe Bryant crash was disoriented by clouds avoiding fog, investigators find
Investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) today said the pilot in the helicopter crash that killed Kobe and Gigi Bryant and six other passengers violated federal rules by flying into clouds, where the pilot became disoriented in the air....
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K.C. coach Britt Reid, Andy Reid’s son, involved in car accident; reportedly told cops he'd been drinking [UPDATED]
Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach, Britt Reid, son of head coach Andy Reid, was in a car accident on Thursday night that left two young children injured. One of the children, a five-year-old, has life-threatening injuries. According to reports, Reid told the police that he had been drinking, and a ...
Gaelic Football Champions Hospitalized After Falling Off Parade Truck
Gaelic football team Enniskerry GAA won the Wicklow Junior B-level football championship on Saturday, and disaster struck as they were celebrating atop a bus, when the railing crumpled and sent a good chunk of partiers to the pavement. Nine people were hospitalized, though nobody was critically hur...
Olympic Champion David Rudisha Survives Car Crash In Kenya
Kenyan middle-distance runner, Olympic champion, and 800m world record holder David Rudisha is reportedly okay after sustaining minor injuries from a car crash in his home country, according to K24TV....
West Virginia Man On Tree Crushing Local Student's Car: "I Hate To Say It, But It Was Kind Of Cool"
On Monday, a crew from the city of Huntington, W. Va. cut down a tree that residents nearby determined was potentially dangerous after a storm blew a branch through the windshield of a parked car. Unfortunately, the crew’s approach to their job was rather negligent and the tree fell on top of a diff...
Three American Water Polo Players Injured In Night Club Balcony Collapse That Killed Two People
While out celebrating out celebrating the women’s world championship victory, athletes from Team USA’s men’s and women’s water polo team were injured on Saturday after a balcony they were standing on inside a South Korean nightclub collapsed. ...
Saints Lineman Mitchell Loewen Helps Save Man Who Drove SUV Off Fourth Floor Of Parking Garage
Saints third-year defensive lineman Mitchell Loewen leapt to the rescue of a man who managed to drive his Mercedes SUV off the fourth floor of a garage in New Orleans Sunday, helping to pull the man from his utterly obliterated vehicle. Per The Times-Picayune:...
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UFC Icon Matt Hughes Airlifted To Hospital After Crash With Moving Train [Update]
Matt Hughes hasn’t fought in the UFC since 2011, but he held the welterweight championship for two stints during the mid-2000's and is considered one of the greatest fighters of all-time in the 170-pound division. He beat MMA legend Royce Gracie and is one of two people ever to defeat Georges St-Pie...
Two Punters Dead In Wisconsin Car Accident
Nebraska punter Sam Foltz and former Michigan State punter Mike Sadler are dead after an an auto accident this weekend in Wisconsin, where the pair were attending a weekend kicking camp....
How Did Barbaro Really Get Hurt?
As of today, it’s been a decade since Barbaro, the 2006 Kentucky Derby winner, answered the starting bell at the Preakness Stakes, moments before jockey Edgar Prado pulled him up with a broken hind leg. Eight months later, he would die of the complications from that injury....
Who's Responsible When A Couch In The Road Causes An Accident?
Welcome back to Ask a Lawyer, wherein I, a lawyer, respond to your questions. Got a vexing legal issue? Send it over, or drop it in the comments below....
Live Report On Dangerous Driving Conditions Interrupted By Car Wreck
It just keeps happening: a TV reporter's live shot covering bad weather gets the most effective illustration when a car wrecks onscreen. This is from Chattanooga CBS affiliate WDEF last night via reader Jake. We have to ask the question: is it really safe for reporters to be hanging out on road-side...
Live Report On Dangerous Driving Conditions Interrupted By Car Wreck
These two reporters from Burlington's WPTZ had an especially exciting live shot this evening when their live report on dangerous Vermont driving conditions included an unscheduled demonstration....
Pedestrian Mowed Down By Motorcyclist Behind Reporter's Live Shot
Tonight's ITV News in the U.K. featured bonus coverage of an accident outside St. Pancras railway station in London while reporter Ria Chatterjee delivered an unrelated story about Eurostar train cancellations. Chatterjee, a true professional, paid no attention to the chaos happening behind her....
Watch A Scary 200-Car Pileup Happen Before Your Eyes
If you've ever read one of those "ten million car pileup on [insert Midwestern highway here]" stories and wondered how it happened, this video of I-94 near Battle Creek, Michigan from yesterday should help explain it. Visibility is so low that once a couple of vehicles wreck, the ones coming behin...
Woman In Famed Abbey Road Crosswalk Hit By Car, Goes Flying
This popped up yesterday on the always-questionable LiveLeak, but I've got a feeling this is legit. Here is a woman trying to run across the famous Abbey Road crosswalk, in spite of all the danger, who needed help after a car ran her over....
Indiana Basketball Player Hit By Teammate's Car, In Hospital
Disaster fell upon the Indiana University basketball team early this morning, when sophomore Devin Davis was struck by a car driven by his freshman teammate Emmitt Holt. Davis had left the car in a parking lot moments earlier, but according to Bloomington Police as the car exited the parking lot Dav...
Jose Canseco's Fiancée: "Douche Douche Douche Douche Douche Douche"
To understand this story, you need to know three things:...
You'll See This Car Crash Coming And It's Still Intense As Hell
The video is cued for about 30 seconds of buildup, but you might want to watch the whole thing to properly let the tension build. It's two men filming the car in front of them as the driver drifts and swerves. The video ends exactly how you expect it to—which doesn't mean you won't shit your dick wh...