All news on the topic: Accidents

The smash took place between Staincross and Newmillerdam

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anna Beaumont, from Cardiff, was found unresponsive in a pool in Orlando, Florida, and died the next day despite the efforts of medical teams

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

One of the teenagers jumped with his rod which touched a high voltage power line in the Russian town Chapayevsk - he and a second boy are now in hospital following the accident

Presenter Stephen Nolan was absent from his own BBC Radio Ulster show on Friday morning after spending six hours in A&E following an accident involving a box of tiles