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accidental death stories: 41 news summaries

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 Was Wal-Mart 
 Trampling a Crime? 

Experts mixed on whether death can be prosecuted

Dec 2, 08 9:32 AM CST
(Newser) - Trampling a Long Island Wal-Mart worker in a frenzied rush for flat-screen TVs may be a prosecutable crime, reports Newsday, but experts are split. “In order to prosecute a homicide, you have to establish that someone caused a death," said a lawyer. "If I stepped on his... More »

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crime • death • accidental death • holiday shopping • Black Friday • Wal-Mart • criminal prosecution • civil trial

 8-Year-Old Accidentally
 Kills Self With Uzi 

8 year-old was firing an Uzi under professional instruction

Oct 27, 08 4:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - An 8-year-old boy died yesterday after he accidentally shot himself with an Uzi at a Massachusetts gun expo, the Hartford Courant reports. “The force of the weapon made it travel up and back toward his head, where he suffered the injury,” police said. An investigation is under... More »

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Massachusetts • Connecticut • accidental death • shooting • guns • firing range • child • Christopher Bizilj

Cops Made Mistake in Taser Death: NYPD Commish

Kelly underscores success rate of emergency-response units

Sep 30, 08 2:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Last week's Tasering of an emotionally disturbed man that led to his death was a "mistake" by New York police officers, commissioner Raymond Kelly admitted yesterday. Two cops involved in the incident have been put on desk duty, and the entire 440-member Emergency Service squad will undergo a retraining... More »

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NYPD • police • training • Taser • accidental death • police brutality • Raymond Kelly

 Tot's Death Spurs 
 Soccer Goal Recall 

Toddler strangled after head became trapped in mesh

Sep 17, 08 12:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - Some 190,000 fold-up soccer goals are being recalled after the strangulation death of a Texas toddler, NPR reports. Distributor Regent Sports will replace all MacGregor and Mitre brand nets with a 5-inch grid sent in by customers. The 21-month-old child died last year when his head became entangled in... More »

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soccer • product recall • product safety • Consumer Product Safety Commission • accidental death • Chinese imports

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 Many Rescues, 1 Death in Texas 

Galveston sees flooding as Ike prepares for landfall

Sep 12, 08 4:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - With Hurricane Ike bearing down on Texas, rescuers continued to evacuate coastal residents from the flooding, the Houston Chronicle reports. Emergency workers used an Army personnel carrier to evacuate residents of High Island, in far eastern Galveston County, stranded by high waters. Tragically, a 10-year-old boy was killed by a... More »

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Texas • storm • death • hurricane season • evacuation • accidental death • Hurricane Ike

Great White to Pay $1M
Over Deadly R.I. Stage Fire

Latest legal development in nightclub fire tragedy

Sep 2, 08 5:18 PM CDT
(AP) - The 1980s rock band whose pyrotechnics sparked a nightclub fire that killed 100 people in Rhode Island has agreed to pay $1 million to survivors and victims' relatives. The settlement offer from Great White was revealed in court papers today. Roughly $175 million has now been offered by dozens of... More »

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courts • accident • nightclub • settlement • accidental death • rock music • fire

 The Roles They Left Behind 

Here's a list of stars whose movies outlasted them

Jul 18, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Heath Ledger's posthumous appearance in The Dark Knight prompts Radar to muse on stars whose films debuted after they died, prompting critics to wonder what could have been—or to hold their tongues.
  • Brad Renfro, The Informers. A onetime child star known for run-ins with the law, Renfro completed
... More »

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film • list • celebrity • death • Heath Ledger • accidental death • Brad Renfro • movies

Drunk Golf-Cart Driver Charged in Accident

Minn. man faces vehicular-homicide rap after friend's fatal fall

Jul 7, 08 2:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 47-year-old Minnesota man is facing vehicular-homicide charges after a friend fell from the golf cart he was driving while intoxicated Friday and died. The 41-year-old passenger fell backward from the rear of the moving cart after a fireworks display at a campground. He struck his head on a paved... More »

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alcohol • drunk driving • golf cart • accidental death • DWI

 Teen Dies in Quarry Jump Rite 

65-foot plunge was made famous in 1979 film

Jun 5, 08 7:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - A teenage rite of passage made popular in a movie claimed a life yesterday when an 18-year-old high school graduate plunged 65 feet to his death into an Indiana quarry pool, ABC reports. The plunge was featured in the 1979 coming-of-age movie Breaking Away and is routinely copied by local... More »

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drowning • accident • student • accidental death • Indiana University • Breaking Away • quarry

Toad Venom Aphrodisiac
Kills NYC Man  

'There is no safe way to use' love drug that upsets heart rhythms

May 23, 08 9:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - New York City officials warned people today to avoid a toad venom-based aphrodisiac that recently killed a man, the AP reports. The illegal love drug, often sold as Jamaican Stone or Chinese Rock, is harmful whether ingested or applied to the skin. "There is no definitely safe way to... More »

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New York City • public health • frogs • accidental death • aphrodisiacs • toad venom • resin

 Singer's Son
 Runs Over Daughter 

Christian Grammy-winner's youngest killed in car accident in family driveway

May 22, 08 10:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - The youngest daughter of Grammy-winning Christian musician Steven Curtis Chapman was struck and killed yesterday when one of her older brothers ran over the tyke in the family driveway, the AP reports. Several family members witnessed the accident that claimed the life of 5-year-old Maria Sue, who died later at... More »

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music industry • car accident • murder • children • Tennessee • accidental death • Nashville • foreign adoptions • Steven Curtis Chapman

 2 Dead, 21 Hurt in
 Chicago Truck Crash 

Semi barrels into bus stop and train station during rush hour

Apr 25, 08 9:14 PM CDT
(Newser) - A speeding semitruck barreled into a Chicago train station today, killing two people and injuring 21—11 critically, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Coming off a freeway in rush hour, the truck hit a bus stop, wedged under a train overpass, and crashed "several steps" up the train platform escalator,... More »

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car accident • car crash • trucks • accidental death • traffic accident

 Dad Falls to Death at Ballpark 

Dad tumbles from escalator after Mets game

Apr 16, 08 12:44 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 36-year-old father of two died after falling four stories from a Shea Stadium escalator last night, Newsday reports. Antonio Nararainsami was leaving the ballpark with family members when he tumbled over the railing of the non-moving escalator.  Police are looking into the possibility that Nararainsami was "surfing"... More »

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MLB • New York Mets • escalators • accidental death • baseball • Shea Stadium • Antonio Nararainsami

Family Sues for $8M in NY Mom's Airport Death

Accidentally strangled trying to escape cuffs in Phoenix holding cell

Mar 27, 08 5:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The family of a New York woman who died in a holding cell at a Phoenix airport is suing the police department and city for $8 million, CNN reports. Carol Gotbaum became agitated after missing a flight last September and cops put her alone in a cell where she accidentally... More »

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rehab • Arizona • police • strangulation • alcohol abuse • Phoenix • airport • accidental death • Carol Gotbaum

 Navy Shot Killed Egyptian: US 

Warning blast to trading vessel in Suez Canal proved fatal

Mar 26, 08 5:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - The US Navy acknowledged today that warning shots from one of its ships in the Suez Canal killed an Egyptian man, Reuters reports. Sources said the boat trying to sell goods to passing vessels approached the Global Patriot, which fired after warnings in Arabic and flares failed to make the... More »

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US military • Egypt • accident • accidental death • US Navy • Suez canal • warning shots

 Fla. Crane Crash 
 Kills 2, Injures 4 

Cause of accident still unknown

Mar 25, 08 4:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Part of a construction crane crashed into a building next to a Miami construction site this afternoon, killing two and injuring at least four, the Miami Herald reports. Workers on an unfinished 46-story luxury condo were raising an extension to connect it with the crane when the extension came loose... More »

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Florida • Miami • rescue dogs • accidental death • crane accident • construction crane • luxury condo

 Stingray 
 Kills Boater
 off Fla. Keys 

Creature leaps onto the deck in freak accident

Mar 20, 08 2:54 PM CDT
(Newser) - A stingray leapt out of the water and struck a 55-year-old Michigan woman who was sunbathing on the deck of a boat off the Florida Keys yesterday, CNN reports. The woman, who was with her husband and children, was knocked to the ground and pronounced dead at a local hospital.... More »

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Florida • accident • accidental death • Florida Keys • stingray • spotted eagle ray • boat accident • dead on arrival

Army Cadet Found After
66 Years

Crew perished during WWII training flight; military funeral planned

Mar 11, 08 12:55 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sixty-six years after his disappearance, a full military funeral is planned for a cadet lost in a flight accident during World War II, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. The Army has identified a recently discovered body as Aviation Cadet Ernest Munn of Ohio, who crashed with three other crewmen in... More »

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California • Ohio • soldier • World War II • accidental death • MIA • Mather airfield • military funeral

Dog Shoots Goose Hunter

Texas math teacher dies in freak hunting accident, as dog jumps on shotgun

Jan 9, 08 4:48 PM CST
(Newser) - A Texas man died after his dog stepped on a loaded shotgun, the Houston Chronicle reports. The teacher, 46, shot down a goose, put the gun in back of the truck, and was about to let the dog out to retrieve it when the gun went off, blowing through the... More »

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accident • hunting • accidental death • dog • guns

Billionaire Dies After Fall at Building Site

Ken Hendricks, 66, built ABC Supply Co. into home-supply chain

Dec 21, 07 6:58 PM CST
(Newser) - Billionaire Ken Hendricks, 66, died today of head injuries after falling through a hole in his unfinished garage roof, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. Hendricks—a high-school dropout who turned ABC Supply Co. into a national building-supply chain—apparently fell through a tarp covering an unfinished portion of an addition to... More »

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Forbes 400 • obituary • billionaire • accidental death

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