Accidents - Other

• Fatigue test could stop drowsy drivers from getting behind the wheel

  The World Today

  By Matthew Clayfield

  Posted February 13, 2017 14:41:38

  It is estimated driver fatigue plays a role in up to a third of all fatal accidents on Australian roads. Now, Victorian researchers are developing a roadside test to identify tired drivers and take them off the road.

  Topics: accidents---other, research, road, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, australia

• Massive evacuation in Greece after WWII bomb found

  Posted February 13, 2017 01:39:35 | Updated February 13, 2017 07:51:17

  Up to 72,000 residents living in Thessaloniki, Greece's second-largest city, are forced to evacuate after the discovery of a World War II bomb during excavation works at a petrol station.

  Topics: history, world-war-2, community-and-society, accidents---other, greece

• Boy drowns, man and another child in hospital after accident at Tin Can Bay

  Posted February 12, 2017 16:39:45 | Updated February 12, 2017 18:36:26

  A nine-year-old boy drowns and a man and another child are in a critical condition after an incident at a beach in Tin Can Bay on Queensland's Fraser Coast.

  Topics: emergency-incidents, accidents---other, tin-can-bay-4580, qld, australia, gympie-4570

• Drunk man sets fireworks shop on fire in China. Video

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  ABC News

  44sec

  Posted February 09, 2017 22:17:48

  Drunk man sets fireworks shop on fire in China.

  Topics: accidents, law-crime-and-justice, accidents, accidents---other, china

• Man drowns rescuing girl from WA floodwaters

  Posted February 05, 2017 13:54:47 | Updated February 06, 2017 02:08:15

  A man in his 40s drowns after jumping into floodwaters and pushing a young girl to safety on the Ord River, in WA's far north Kimberley.

  Topics: accidents---other, floods, purnululu-6770

• Man critically injured in boating accident

  Posted February 05, 2017 13:13:43 | Updated February 05, 2017 14:47:08

  Police investigate how a man came to be critically injured by a boat propeller on the Murray River, about 90 kilometres south of Perth.

  Topics: accidents---other, ravenswood-6208

• Teenage girl dies in hospital after boating accident

  Posted February 04, 2017 16:54:59

  A teenager dies in hospital more than a week after she hit her head in a boating accident off South Australia's Yorke Peninsula.

  Topics: accidents---other, accidents, port-broughton-5522, adelaide-5000, sa

• Calls for Blackmans Bay cliff fence upgrade after girl's fatal fall

  By Rhiannon Shine

  Posted January 30, 2017 07:58:40 | Updated January 30, 2017 08:42:02

  Blackmans Bay residents want a fence upgraded where a teen fell to her death but local authorities say they will wait for a coroner's report.

  Topics: accidents---other, local-government, blackmans-bay-7052

• Giant sinkhole swallows two front yards in US

  Posted January 26, 2017 11:18:02

  A massive sinkhole swallows parts of two homes' front yards, a footpath and edge of a street, leaving a ute dangling on its edge in the Philadelphia.

  Topics: disasters-and-accidents, accidents---other, united-states

• Large sinkhole opens up in a Philadelphia neighbourhood Video

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  ABC News

  33sec

  Posted January 26, 2017 10:33:00 | Updated January 26, 2017 10:50:30

  A large sinkhole opened up in a Philadelphia neighbourhood in the United States, partially swallowing a ute and forcing evacuation.

  Topics: accidents, accidents---other, united-states

• Skydive accident survivor rediscovers passion for life in open water swimming

  ABC Far North

  By Frances Adcock and Mark Rigby

  Posted January 23, 2017 16:23:55 | Updated January 23, 2017 16:32:06

  A far north Queensland man whose passion for adventure landed him in a wheelchair is training for one of the toughest open water swims in Queensland.

  Topics: swimming, extreme-sports, accidents---other, rehabilitation, disabilities, cairns-4870, townsville-4810, magnetic-island-4819, goondiwindi-4390

• Death toll from Italian avalanche rises to six, 23 still missing

  Posted January 23, 2017 08:49:32

  Rescue workers find the body of a man in the wreckage of the hotel in central Italy that was buried in an avalanche, bringing the death toll to six with 23 still missing.

  Topics: accidents---other, italy

• Roof of Czech gym collapses on floorball match

  Posted January 17, 2017 12:19:12

  Footage shows the moment a gym roof began to collapse on a Floorball game in the Czech Republic, forcing players and spectators to flee.

  Topics: accidents, accidents---other, sport, czech-republic

• Sports centre roof collapses as players flee Video

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  ABC News

  31sec

  Posted January 17, 2017 09:26:37

  Footage shows players running from the floor as the roof of a sports centre collapses under the weight of snow in the Czech Republic.

  Topics: accidents---other, sport, czech-republic

• 7yo boy dies after NSW quad bike accident

  Posted January 16, 2017 09:12:05 | Updated January 16, 2017 17:31:12

  A seven-year-old quad bike rider dies in Canberra Hospital after he was pinned under the bike in a crash in the New South Wales Riverina on Sunday.

  Topics: death, accidents---other, barellan-2665, nsw, act

• Cliff jumping death at popular Blackwall Reach on Swan River

  By Nicolas Perpitch

  Posted January 16, 2017 00:21:03 | Updated January 16, 2017 09:04:13

  Police are trying to confirm the background of a foreign national who is dead after jumping off cliffs at Blackwall Reach into Perth's Swan River.

  Topics: accidents---other, death, bicton-6157, wa, australia

• Tourist found on drifting surfboard 6km off Aussie coast

  By Clare Blumer and Liv Casben

  Posted January 14, 2017 12:22:21 | Updated January 14, 2017 15:05:51

  A tourist catches a lucky break when he is spotted drifting on a surfboard off the Australian coast nearly 6 kilometres offshore, after spending 16 hours in the water.

  Topics: accidents, accidents---other, sea-transport, surf-life-saving, surfing, bulli-2516, wollongong-2500

• Lifeguards warn of dangers around coastal creek mouths

  ABC Coffs Coast

  By Helen Merkell

  Posted January 11, 2017 15:00:00 | Updated January 11, 2017 16:47:44

  The recent spate of drownings along Australia's coastline prompts lifeguards to warn people to be extremely careful around coastal creek mouths.

  Topics: surf-life-saving, death, community-and-society, accidents---other, maritime, regional, coffs-harbour-2450, port-macquarie-2444, byron-bay-2481

• Boy, 8, drowns in Lake Hume in Victoria

  Posted January 10, 2017 20:20:32 | Updated January 10, 2017 20:42:38

  An eight-year-old boy has drowned at Lake Hume, on Victoria's north-eastern border, police say.

  Topics: death, accidents---other, ebden-3691

• One teen dead, another critical after crash south of Narooma

  Posted January 08, 2017 10:55:17 | Updated January 08, 2017 13:42:56

  A 19-year-old driver dies and a passenger is critically injured in a two-car crash on the New South Wales far south coast.

  Topics: accidents---other, accidents, road, narooma-2546, nsw, canberra-2600, bega-2550

• Dreamworld revenue plummets 63 per cent on reopening

  By business reporter Michael Janda

  Posted January 06, 2017 11:09:02 | Updated January 06, 2017 11:19:12

  Ardent Leisure reports a 63 per cent slump in revenue at its Dreamworld and Whitewater World theme parks on the Gold Coast since they reopened after a fatal accident.

  Topics: tourism, company-news, accidents---other, australia, coomera-4209, qld

• Teen worker dies after fall at new Perth H&M site

  By Graeme Powell

  Posted January 05, 2017 10:02:26 | Updated January 05, 2017 20:44:11

  A young worker dies in hospital after falling 12 metres while carrying out renovations at Perth's old post office building at Forrest Place.

  Topics: death, accidents---other, perth-6000, wa

• Man injured after falling off cliff at Kirribilli

  Posted January 05, 2017 06:44:43 | Updated January 05, 2017 10:19:22

  Neighbours say they were woken by screams for help after a man fell from a rock face at the Mary Booth Reserve at Kirribilli on Sydney's North Shore.

  Topics: accidents---other, police, sydney-2000

• 25 dead in fiery crash on Thai highway

  Posted January 03, 2017 11:00:53 | Updated January 03, 2017 12:28:24

  Twenty-five people die when a van and a ute collided and caught fire on a highway in eastern Thailand.

  Topics: accidents---other, road, thailand

• Experts struggle to stop fireworks black market

  PM

  By Karen Michelmore

  Posted January 02, 2017 17:32:16

  Pyrotechnics experts warn it will be difficult to stop Australia's dangerous underground market of illegal fireworks, with most of the professional-grade crackers sourced from legal suppliers within Australia.

  Topics: accidents---other, accidents, disasters-and-accidents, law-crime-and-justice, crime, australia, nsw, vic

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