A man has been paralysed after breaking his neck in a freak funfair accident at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. Robert Sycamore, 58, was injured while riding on a 50mph roller coaster and is now on a life support machine. Firefighters had to him free from the ride and he was rushed to the Royal Preston Hospital. [...]
A workplace injury can be defined generally as any injury or illness that is sustained as a direct consequence of an employee undertaking their normal duties. Injuries and illnesses at work can be caused by a wide variety of different circumstances, and can be sustained in a range of different work environments, from construction sites [...]
Christophe de Margerie, the chief executive officer of Total SA, the French oil company, has been killed in an accident at Moscow's Vnukovo airport, according to official sources. A representative of the transport investigative committee said the French-made Falcon 50 business jet, headed for France, collided with the snow-removal machine during take-off, TASS news agency reported. [...]
The man killed when his rally car plunged into water was named as Ryan Bradley today. The Co Derry man was taking part in the Down rally outside Castlewellan, Co Down when his Mk 2 Escort crashed into a wall leaving the Lackan Road and dived into Lough Island Reavy reservoir. His co-driver, named locally [...]
A John Lewis worker who was left with a brain injury after slipping on a wet floor is suing the department store for more than £50,000. Ronald Catchick claims he still has headaches, dizziness and memory problems after he fell at the Watford branch. Mr Catchick, 67, from Chorleywood, is claiming damages from John Lewis [...]
A SCHOOLGIRL who was injured in a road accident on the outskirts of Newcastle West more than four years has been awarded €25,000 in damages. The girl, who is now aged 17, was a rear seat passenger in a car being driven by her mother at Rooska, Newcastle West on April 29, 2010. According to [...]
Jules Bianchi underwent surgery after suffering a severe head injury during an accident at Sunday's Japanese Grand Prix. Bianchi crashed into a recovery vehicle on lap 43 of the race as it was lifting Adrian Sutil's crashed Sauber out of the way. A medical team arrived on the scene soon after and took him to [...]
Almost four months after the six-car accident on the New Jersey Turnpike that sent Tracy Morgan to the hospital and killed a fellow passenger, the famed comedian is still "struggling to recover," his lawyer said. Benedict Morelli, Morgan's lawyer, was shocked and "very upset" when Walmart filed a response to his client's lawsuit in New [...]
The instructor killed in a skydiving accident this weekend on Cape Cod was an outgoing person who was passionate about “sharing the sky’’ with students he encountered at Skydive Barnstable, the company said in a statement Tuesday. Eldon Burrier had teamed up Sunday with Andrew Munson of Nantucket in a tandem jump from the Cape [...]
A SKYDIVER who was brain injured after landing head-first on a bitumen road claims he was given the go-ahead to jump well away from a safe landing zone. Matthew Lynam, 30, has lost the use of parts of the left side of his body and has been unable to work since the 2011 skydiving accident [...]