Last week, a North Carolina man reportedly plunged to his death after his GPS led him to a bridge that had washed away in 2013 and lacked barricades. The Charlotte Observer reported that it was raining when Phil Paxson, 47, drove his Jeep into a creek in Hickory on September 30. GPS is believed to …
A man reportedly died after he became trapped in a hydraulic machine at a packaging plant in Ohio. Heath fire officials who responded to Samuel Packaging found Billy Joe Craig’s body in the machine, which was off. He was pronounced dead at the scene, according to WCMH. The Newark Advocate reported that Craig was an …
On Monday, an employee’s body was reportedly discovered in a kettle cooker at a food processing plant in New Jersey, The body of Dale Devilli, 63, was found in a cooker at the Lassonde Pappas and Company Plant in Seabrook. State troopers who responded to reports of an unresponsive person located Devilli — who was …
A Pennsylvania EMS worker was killed last week when she was crushed between two ambulances. Two private ambulances were responding to a call in Philadelphia on Saturday, and the first ambulance driver stayed behind the wheel as his colleagues prepared to load the patient. At some point, the driver left the vehicle with the motor …
A 13-year-old New Jersey boy was killed Friday night when he was hit by a car while riding his bicycle. Hightstown Police said the accident took place at about 9 p.m. when a car making a left turn from Mercer Street onto West Ward Street hit the boy as he rode across the street, according …
Indiana officials said on Wednesday that a man who was found dead in a pond with his three young children was intoxicated when he died in July. According to the Indianapolis Star, the Marion County Coroner’s Office said Kyle Moorman, 27, had acute ethanol intoxication when he accidentally drowned. On July 12, the father, along …
Alcohol intoxication reportedly played a role in the death of a Texas woman who was found dead in her car three weeks after her disappearance. Christina Powell, 39, whose body was discovered in a car parked outside Huebner Oaks Shopping Center in San Antonio on July 23, reportedly died from hyperthermia. The medical examiner ruled …
A baggage loader at a Louisiana airport was reportedly killed on Wednesday from injuries she sustained when her hair got tangled in a belt loader. Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport officials told WVUE that the deadly accident involving Jermani Thompson, 26, unfolded where planes are refueled, parked, boarded, and maintained. Thompson’s employer, GAT Airline …
Florida police said a wrong-way driver caused Saturday’s wreck that left himself seriously injured and killed five people in the vehicle he directly crashed into. The Miami Herald reported that Maiky Simeon, 30, was driving east on State Road 826’s westbound lanes near Miami Lakes when he collided with a Honda containing five people near …
A 4-year-old boy in New York was fatally struck by a car on Saturday. The New York Post reported that Domantea McDonald was killed in Queens, two weeks after his brother, Tysheem McDonald, 18, was fatally shot. Domantea was outside of his uncle’s home after attending his slain brother’s funeral when the boy broke away …
A partial human foot still in its shoe, found floating in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring this week, likely belong to an individual who fell into Abyss Pool on the morning of July 31. The park said in a Facebook post that it is still investigating the death but doesn’t believe foul play was …
South Carolina officials are investigating the death of a woman who was reportedly impaled by a beach umbrella on Wednesday. WMBF reported that an umbrella that took wind struck Tammy Perreault, 63, in Garden City. Perreault suffered chest trauma as a result; she died at a hospital in Waccamaw less than an hour later. “A …
