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SF Woman Blames Car Crash on Eclipse

Rob Quinn — Tue, 22 May 2012 01:50:24 CDT

A San Francisco driver blamed the moon moving in front of the sun for preventing her from spotting the pedestrians moving in front of her vehicle. The 26-year-old woman told cops that she had looked at the "ring of fire" annular eclipse and had been temporarily blinded by its glare...

UN Nuke Inspector Dies in Iran Crash

Tue, 08 May 2012 11:16:08 CDT

Cue the conspiracy theories: A UN nuclear inspector from South Korea was killed and a second inspector from Slovenia was injured in a car crash today, the nuclear watchdog agency said. Iran's official IRNA news agency said the inspectors' car overturned around a heavy water reactor being built in Khondab,...

Kid Charged in Grisly Crash That Killed 9 Immigrants

Mon, 16 Apr 2012 15:34:05 CDT

A 15-year-old South Texas boy has been charged with nine counts of murder after a van he was driving crashed, killing nine of the suspected illegal immigrants packed inside. The boy appeared at a probable cause hearing today, where he was also charged with 17 counts of smuggling a person,...

Fatal Crashes Spike Near Tax Day

Evann Gastaldo — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 07:18:17 CDT

As if Tax Day isn't depressing enough, it turns out you're also more likely to die in a traffic accident on or around April 15. Between 1980 and 2009, traffic accident deaths were an average of 6% higher on tax filing day than they were on a day one week...

Best-Selling Author Jeffrey Zaslow Killed in Crash

John Johnson — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:14:13 CST

Author and newspaper columnist Jeffrey Zaslow is dead at age 53 after a car accident in Michigan today, reports the Detroit Free Press and Wall Street Journal . Zaslow is perhaps best known for his book Last Lecture , about the final lecture of the late Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, but...

Yale Bans Kegs at Tailgates After Deadly Crash

Dustin Lushing — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:33:30 CST

Yale has banned kegs from all student athletic games or functions in the wake of a U-Haul crash that killed a woman at the Harvard-Yale football game in November. The new rules also prohibit box trucks and the like from tailgate parties unless driven by an official vendor, reports AP...

Chain-Reaction Crash Triggers Priciest Pileup Ever

Mary Papenfuss — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:50:00 CST

A chain-reaction crash of some of the priciest driving machines in Japan triggered the most expensive pileup in car-wreck history. Millions of dollars of luxe metal were crumpled when eight Ferraris, three Mercedes Benzes, and a Lamborghini Diablo slammed into one another on the Chugoku Expressway in southwestern Japan yesterday...

Ndamukong Suh Crashes Car

Kevin Spak — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 14:55:05 CST

Controversial Detroit Lions defensive tackle Ndamukong Suh—who you might remember from the time he smashed an opponent’s head into the turf on Thanksgiving—crashed his car in spectacular fashion in downtown Portland a little after 1 am this morning, careening onto a curb and hitting a light pole, a...

Girl Survives 2 Days Trapped in Car With Dead Dad

Kate Schwartz — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 09:07:25 CST

A truly astonishing tale of survival out of North Carolina: A 9-year-old girl managed to survive for more than 43 hours stuck upside down after the car her father was driving crashed. Jordan Landon was trapped by her seatbelt from about 10pm Friday until her Sunday night rescue, reports the...