A jump in whiplash claims is continuing to inflate car insurance premiums. Drivers are paying an average £367 a year, up 2.9 per cent on a year ago, industry figures show. They are just shy of their 2013 peak of £377 a year. Prices are rising, despite efforts by insurers and the Government to crack [...]
A pilot has died in a horror air crash at a car festival organised by TV star Chris Evans in Cheshire today. News of the death came just a few hours after the crash happened. Images from the scene, at Carfest North at Oulton Park, show plumes of smoke rising from a field close to [...]
Mikey O’Connor said he was unfairly refused payment from the Qualified Riders Accident Fund The Turf Club is investigating the accuracy of comments made by amateur jockey Mikey O’Connor who has claimed the integrity body has unfairly refused to pay him from theQualified Riders Accident Fund after he sustained injuries in a fall. After riding [...]
A Red Devil parachutist has said he owes his colleague a pint of beer after the pair got tangled in mid-air but safely reached the ground. Cpl Mike French, 34, was performing at the Whitehaven Air Show in Cumbria on Friday when the accident happened. His parachute wrapped around Cpl Wayne Shorthouse but they managed [...]
An elderly farmer suffered serious injuries as he was handling cattle in Macroom. A 70-year-old man was seriously injured in a farming accident in Carrigadrohid, Macroom, Co Cork on Tuesday evening. The Gardai said the farmer was putting bulls in a pen when one of them kicked him in the chest. The man was taken [...]
The terrifying incident happened in Coachford, near Macroom, Co Cork, earlier this evening John DeleaMedevac 112 lands in Macroom, Co. Cork An elderly man has been rushed to hospital after a horrifying farming accident, according to reports. It is understood a bull kicked a gate which crushed the man on his farm, near Macroom, Co [...]
Four people have been seriously injured following a crash at Alton Towers amusement park, involving two carriages on the Smiler attraction. One of the carriages contained 16 guests while the other was empty, they came together on a low section of the track. An Alton Towers spokeswoman said: "The resort's fully qualified first responders were on the [...]
Enrique Iglesias injured two of his fingers trying to grab a drone during a performance in Mexico over the weekend. The 40-year-old Spanish heart-throb tried to grab onto the drone which was being used to take crowd shots during his concert at the Plaza de Toros de Playas in Tijuana. "Something went wrong and he had [...]
We reached out to Volvo for answers about what went wrong here, and the company’s response was also a bit disturbing. Volvo spokesperson Johan Larsson explained that the video is mislabeled. He said the car is not attempting to self-park. “It seems they are trying to demonstrate pedestrian detection and auto-braking,” said Larsson by email. [...]
On Saturday, Princeton University mathematician John Forbes Nash, Jr., whose life was the subject of the film A Beautiful Mind, was killed, with his wife Alicia, in a taxi crash on the New Jersey Turnpike, NJ.com reports. He was 86. She was 82. State Police Sgt. Gregory Williams told NJ.com that the taxi driver lost [...]