WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The commercial drone industry could be torpedoed if there were a serious accident involving a drone and a commercial aircraft, the chairman of the U.S.
An investigation by Consumer Reports may force electric scooter businesses to double back on safety measures. The magazine found electric scooters caused 1,545 injuries in the U.S.
Mail Online
| 2/6/2019
| Natalie Rahhal Deputy Health Editor For Dailymail.com
More people do die in traffic accidents during the first few months after marijuana is legalized, but then the numbers fall again, according to a new Australian study.
Ride hailing firm Uber is raising the minimum age of its drivers in the Netherlands and taking other measures to increase road safety after a recent series of fatal accidents involving Uber drivers.
There were approximately 41.95 million abortions carried out around the world in 2018, an organization that tracks death statistics reported. Christian Daily Reporter was one of a number of websites...
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| 12/12/2018
| Annie Palmer For Dailymail.com
Soon, Lyft's self-driving cars could warn pedestrians and cyclists when they're about to cross the street. The ride-hailing giant filed a patent for technology that would display on-screen warnings...
A scooter rider in San Francisco. As more people fall victim to e-scooter accidents, specialists from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are heading to Austin, Texas, to study the...
Mail Online
| 12/8/2018
| Sam Blanchard Health Reporter For Mailonline
Bumper cars can be just as dangerous as real traffic accidents, doctors have warned. An eight-year-old in France was left with a collapsed lung after being involved in a smash on the dodgems.
Mail Online
| 11/28/2018
| Connor Boyd For Mailonline
A quick-thinking mother managed to pull her two small children to safety three times in a matter of seconds when an out of control van came hurtling towards them.
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| 11/23/2018
| Jennifer Smith For Dailymail.com
Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry walked away from back-to-back car accidents on Black Friday after having his Porsche hit by two separate drivers. Curry was driving his black Panamera Turbo...
Legal marijuana may be leading to a rise in traffic accidents, according to two new studies. The rates of car crashes are up by as much as six per cent in Colorado, Nevada, Oregon and Washington...
Taking a selfie against a dangerous background or in a frightening position is thrilling and it shows a bravery and courage in getting that next-to-impossible photo, that is until the photographer...
Boiling is usually associated with heating, however, in many industrial applications associated with extremely hot components, such as nuclear power plants and metal casting, boiling is used as an...
A new University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa study has produced a new technique involving heat that could help prevent nuclear power plant accidents. Boiling is usually associated with heating, however, in...
Prominent cities like Washington, D.C., Dallas, Los Angeles and Salt Lake City have been in the news this month for scooter-related deaths and injuries. Many of these electric scooter companies...
Safety regulators are recommending the use of technology to help avoid the kind of catastrophic collision that nearly occurred when an Air Canada jetliner zoomed over four taxiing planes full of...
I came across this interesting piece in Touchstone from a couple of years ago. It’s by software designer Harry Biltz, who argues that “modern science has rendered atheism irrational.
Humans seem to be a major obstacle in getting self-driving cars on the roads safely. According to a new report, people were responsible for 81 of the 88 accidents involving autonomous vehicles (AVs)...
“What you see is that fatal crash incidence goes up in hot temperatures,” Obradovich said. Here, an average temperature range of 30° C to 40° C (or 86° F to 104° F) produces an amplified risk of...
DHAKA (Reuters) – Khurshid Alam says he pulls 17-hour shifts three days a week driving a private bus in Dhaka, where tens of thousands of students held angry protests for over a week demanding an...
Paris (AFP) – Dozens of youths shattered windows at a popular store on the Champs Elysees avenue Sunday while hundreds of thousands of fans celebrated France’s World Cup victory, according to an AFP...
Mark W. Smith is a constitutional attorney and author of "The Official Handbook of the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy: The Arguments You Need to Defeat the Loony Left", and "Disrobed: The New Battle...
GLOW, Netflix's glorious comedy about the making of Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling (a real show from the 1980s), returns for a second season on June 29 and it's full of fractured relationships, fierce...
If you are the pastor I met in Richmond, Virginia, recently, thank you. Thank you for your encouragement. Thank you for your faithfulness. And thank you for your wise words about pastors and...
“Your church address is not an accident. Your community is not an accident. And your calling is not an accident. God is in it all. God is the power of it all. Celebrate these realities.
Americans trust self-driving technology less than they did only months ago, according to AAA, a trend presumably stemming from multiple accidents involving such advanced vehicles.
If you are the pastor I met in Richmond, Virginia recently, thank you. Thank you for your encouragement. Thank you for your faithfulness. And thank you for your wise words about pastors and...
New research reveals that some black hole collisions may cascade, with the dense objects crashing into one another to create even more-massive black holes. This runaway growth may happen within...
CHICAGO (CBS) – CBS 2 Investigator Dave Savini tracks drivers violating road safety and talks to a man severely injured and suing the company. CBS 2 Investigators catch Amazon delivery drivers...
Buy PhotoCalifornia drivers who are involved in a hit-and-run crash will find themselves responsible for the deductible on their insurance policy if they are unable to identify the offending driver...
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| 4/26/2018
| Mollie Cahillane For Dailymail.com
A horrifying video captures the moment a female skydiver is critically injured after a jump goes wrong in Florida. The unnamed woman jumped from a plane at Skydive City in Zephyrhills last week.
Over the last thirty years, in both the European Union and Spain the number of traffic accidents has decreased considerably. However, accidents with cyclists have not followed the same trend and have...
Cancer is a major cause of death worldwide. But humans are not the only species affected by cancer; in fact, only a few primitive animals are thought to escape the disease.
Mail Online
| 4/14/2018
| Daniel Roth For Dailymail.com
Billionaire hi-tech mogul Elon Musk admitted on Thursday that the autopilot program his automotive company is working on will 'never be perfect' at preventing accidents.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Deaths and injuries from train collisions or derailment in India more than halved to 254 people last fiscal year from a year ago, railways data showed, amid attempts to improve...
A new Military Times report shows that accidents involving all US military aircraft rose 40% between the 2013 and 2017 fiscal years. The accidents line up with massive budget cuts that Congress put...
Two separate aviation incidents involving United States Marine Corps (USMC) aircraft in Djibouti have forced the cancellation of Exercise Alligator Dagger, a routine training operation near the Arta...
The U.S. Navy canceled a major exercise in Djibouti days after it began following two aviation accidents. Naval Forces Central Command on Thursday put air operations "on hold" and called off the...
Mail Online
| 4/6/2018
| Jessa Schroeder For Dailymail.com
United States military officials announced Thursday that flights in Djibouti have been grounded until further notice after two separate aviation accidents this week.
The U.S. military has put its air operations in Djibouti on hold and canceled the remainder of an ongoing military exercise after two aviation accidents that occurred Tuesday.
by Lauren Wissot The 15th edition of CPH:DOX (March 15-25) boasted over 200 films (100 of which were premieres) and a wide array of industry activities — including the inaugural Science Film Forum,...
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| 3/27/2018
| Phoebe Southworth For Mailonline
A highway pile-up involving 23 vehicles - including 12 trucks - has killed one person and left another in a critical condition. The string of related accidents happened at about 7am Monday on...
(CNSNews.com) - The U.S. military has lost more service members to accidents and training incidents than in combat, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said Thursday.
Legal analysts are grappling with a new liability issue after Uber’s autonomous car accident this week led to the death of a pedestrian. A self-driving Uber vehicle hit and killed a pedestrian in...
JAKARTA (Reuters) – Indonesia suspended on Tuesday the construction of elevated infrastructure projects, including rail and roads, after a series of accidents raised questions about the safety of a...
Two separate deadly wrecks along Interstate 45 created havoc along a swath of highway stretching from Montgomery County to north Houston, with the latter accident leaving southbound I-45 at Parker...
The Sanchi tanker was carrying 136,000 tonnes of oil from Iran to South Korea when it collided with the Hong Kong-flagged cargo ship CF Crystal, 160 nautical miles off the coast of Shanghai, China.
An expansive pothole appearing along the Eastex Freeway is to be blamed for one lousy morning commute. Numerous cars and trucks hit the hole, sending chunks of concrete onto the road below, making...
IMAGE 3 OF 23Cars from an Amtrak train remain on the tracks above where other cars spilled below onto Interstate 5 Monday, Dec. 18, 2017, in DuPont, Wash. The Amtrak train making the first-ever run...
The mayor of Lakewood, Washington was critical of the safety of the new Amtrak line two weeks before the route opened. An Amtrak train carrying more than 70 passengers derailed in Washington state...