accidents

A stripper named Honey Badger from Texas went viral over the weekend after a video of her plummeting 15 feet from a pole in a nightclub garnered thousands of shares and retweets. Sign Up For Our Newsletter! The woman, whose name is Genea Sky on social media, gave a public comment admonishing her fellow social […]

DUPONT, Wash. (AP) — Investigators are looking into whether the Amtrak engineer whose speeding train plunged off an overpass, killing at least three people, was distracted by the presence of an employee-in-training next to him in the locomotive, a federal official said Tuesday. The official, who was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly and […]

NEW YORK (AP) — A man steered his car onto a sidewalk running through the heart of Times Square and mowed down pedestrians for three blocks Thursday, killing a teenager, then emerged from his wrecked vehicle wild-eyed and waving his arms before he was subdued by police and bystanders. The driver, a 26-year-old U.S. Navy […]

TULTEPEC, Mexico (AP) — A powerful chain-reaction explosion ripped through Mexico’s best-known fireworks market on the northern outskirts of the capital Tuesday, killing at least 29 people, injuring scores more and sending a huge plume of charcoal-gray smoke billowing into the sky. Video of the blast showed a dramatic staccato of rockets exploding in flashes […]

You may remember some years ago that Tom Cruise helped someone who was in an accident in L.A. (and then did it again years later.) Now his Collateral co-star Jamie Foxx has done the same thing. Multiple reports say that Foxx, in photos of the crash captured by the Facebook group Safety For Citizens, a […]

ODESSA, Texas (AP) — A prison bus skidded off an icy Texas highway, slid down an embankment and collided with a passing freight train Wednesday, killing eight inmates and two corrections officers, including the bus driver, authorities said. The overpass on Interstate 20 was slick with ice Wednesday morning when the Texas Department of Criminal […]

More clips have leaked from the Brandy interview for Oprah’s Where Are They Now? series which airs Sundays at 9 p.m. In 2006, Brandy was involved in a car accident on a Los Angeles highway. Right before the New Year, Brandy was driving her 2007 Range Rover on the 405 Freeway when she failed to […]

CHICAGO (AP) — An operator of a Chicago public-transit train that jumped the tracks and scaled an escalator at one of nation’s busiest airports Monday may have dozed off, the president of a Chicago transit union said. The woman said she had worked extensive overtime recently and was “extremely tired” at the time of the […]

Harlem Globetrotter Bull Bullard was putting on one of his signature moves at a basketball game in Honduras when the backboard decided to play defense. Bullard caught…