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Man dies and toddler injured after car accident in Barnsley
Man, 56, died at scene and one-year-old boy was taken to hospital after collision on Sunday morning
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Britain’s most hazardous junction has experienced 13 accidents in just six weeks
Extraordinary CCTV footage shows a series of car crashes at ‘Britain’s most dangerous junction’, which has seen thirteen accidents in two months.
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Pilot dies as airplane crash-lands on busy motorway in ’indescribable’ tragedy
A pilot has been killed in the Netherlands in a "tragic accident", as the flight school confirmed the aeroplane crashed onto a busy motorway, sparking a huge fireball
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Brit holidaymaker dies after being swept into the water at famous sea caves
The surviving trio managed to reach safety by swimming back to shore , while two fishermen and an off-duty firefighter tried to save the 32-year-old British woman who tragically drowned off the coast of the Canary Island of Fuerteventura
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Heartbreaking tribute to teens riding e-scooter killed after crash with bus
Gilbert Collins, 15, and Abuzwa Idras, 17, were tragically killed in Ireland after their e-scooter collided with a bus in the early hours of Thursday in Waterford
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Teen crushed to death by farm machinery in horror freak work accident
The horror unfolded in in a field in Brembio, southeast of Milan, Italy, when Pierpaolo Bodini and a colleague were carrying out routine maintenance on the machine
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Schoolboy, 15 falls 60ft from iconic cliffs while having photo taken by friend
The 15-year-old was on a school trip when he toppled 60ft over the edge of a cliff as he posed for a picture - prompting five rescue teams to rush to the beauty spot
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Boy, 15, fell to his death after trying to help girl in tragic quarry accident
Myron Davies, 15, died after falling off a cliff at Abersychan quarry, Pontypool, having "instinctively" gone to help a teenage friend who was airlifted to hospital, an inquest heard
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Horror as at least 550 pilgrims die from blazing 50C heat in Mecca
As many as 577 people, many of them elderly, collapsed and died in blazing 50C temperatures in Mecca, showing the dangers of the pilgrimage undertaken in the conditions
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Man, 50, dies after climbing one of the Three Peaks as air ambulance scrambled
A 50-year-old hiker died after collapsing while climbing Pen y Ghent in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, the Yorkshire Dales, as a coroner prepares a report on the accident
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Heartbreaking warning to parents after boy, 4, found dead in family pool
A frantic two-hour search was launched after the child snuck out of his Alabama home and was reported missing before his body was found in a murky pool swimming pool
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Boy, 16, killed by falling tree was 'trying to earn extra pocket money'
Kamil Hubert had just finished his GCSEs when he was fatally injured in an accident in a derelict house very near his home in Carlton-in-Lindrick, Nottinghamshire on Saturday
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Student's nipple tears in half after she catches piercing in uni halls shower
When Tilly Yeats caught her nipple piercing in the shower door in her student accommodation, the teenager "thought she was going to pass out" and she was taken to A&E
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Woman dies after being crushed by police van on beach as witnesses try to help
WARNING - GRAPHIC CONTENT: A woman has died after being crushed by a police van in a horror incident on a beach in South Carolina, where witnesses desperately tried to save her
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Grieving child falls from balcony weeks after mum's death in car crash
Tyler Mason was just 15 when he fell from the 35th floor of the Meriton hotel balcony in the Parramatta area of Sydney, Australia in March just two weeks after his mum died
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Girl killed in horrifying accident as racket broke and metal pierced her skull
A little girl was killed in an accident while she played with her brother after a broken badminton racket's metal shaft stabbed into her head leaving her 'unconscious' and 'unresponsive'
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Runaway tram hurls passengers out onto busy highway after 'brake failure'
A total of 80 people have been injured - including at least one dead - after a runaway tram with “failed brakes” lost control and threw commuters out of its doors in Kemerovo, Russia
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Woman killed by vintage steam train while trying to take selfie
The horrific accident happened in a town around 60 miles northwest of Mexico City as the train was making its way towards the capital after setting off from Canada in April
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'I thought my new love was ghosting me but I later learned the tragic truth'
A Californian woman thought her new love was 'ghosting' her after he stopped replying to messages before she learned the horrifying truth of what happened through Instagram
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Pro skier and his girlfriend die in each other's arms after fatal fall on hike
Italian World Cup skier Jean Daniel Pession and his girlfriend Elisa Arlian, both 27, were found dead after a 2,200ft fall from Mount Zerbion on the Pennine Alps in Italy at the weekend
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Horrifying moment planes collide in air show killing at least one of the pilots
The Portuguese Air Force said two of six aircraft involved in the Beja Air Show in the Alentejo region of Portugal collided. According to reports, one pilot was killed
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Police officer dies after being stabbed in head at political rally
A 29-year-old police officer who was stabbed in the head in Mannheim, southwest Germany, on Friday, did not survive his injuries and was pronounced dead on Sunday
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Brit girl, 13, dies on family holiday in Florida
Anna Beaumont, from Cardiff, was found unresponsive in a pool in Orlando, Florida, and died the next day despite the efforts of medical teams
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Woman given tiny chance of survival after horror fall makes 'miracle' recovery
Olivia Corbiere, 23, fell 15ft down a ravine and was given a five per cent chance of survival - but has now defied the odds and has been discharged from hospital