Police say a 52-vehicle pileup on a highway in northwestern Germany has left three people dead and 35 injured. The accident happened Friday evening on the A31 autobahn near the town of Gronau on the border with the Netherlands. The …
An overloaded school minibus crashed head-on with a truck in rural western China on Wednesday, killing at least 18 kindergarten children on their way to class, officials said. Sixty-two children and two adults were crowded into the bus, which had …
Each year, people are killed and maimed by explosions of finely powdered wood, metal or chemicals at factories around the country. Safety experts have studied the threat posed by dust at industrial sites for nearly a decade, yet tighter regulations …
A single-boat accident blemished the final day of racing Sunday at the Key West World Championship, but injuries to two New Jersey racers were not believed to be serious. The final race of three was staged despite three deaths in …
A government health official says 21 people have been killed in a collision between a bus and a passenger van in southern Pakistan. Sagheer Ahmed says the vehicles were traveling to the city of Karachi from Thatta, 80 miles (130 …
State media say at least six people were killed and 25 injured when a passenger van overturned at the end of a traffic tunnel in southwest China. Xinhua News Agency says the van crashed Sunday near a bridge at the …
A new Florida Department of Transportation website is trying to reduce the high number of bicyclist and pedestrian fatalities in the Tampa Bay area. The St. Petersburg Times reports that the state used $125,000 to hire an advertising firm, which …
Tests at Clemson University show the mysterious deaths of at least 23 crows around the Bluffton Schools Complex was the result of a pesticide typically used in cotton and potato fields. The Island Packet of Hilton Head reports that Daniela …
Authorities say 16 people are dead in Nigeria after two buses crashed head-on into each other on a highway. Sunday Maku of the Federal Road Safety Commission told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the collision happened after one of …
Two Nevadans were killed in a mining accident partly because someone wedged a broom handle against a reset button to bypass an alarm that would have shut down the system, federal safety investigators said. The Mine Safety and Health Administration …