Fatigue caused Tauranga teen Keanan Coetzee’s fatal SH2 crash – coroner
Coetzee, a Year 13 student at Tauranga Boys’ College, was driving to wo…
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Bus-trailer collision near Khanewal kills one, injures nine
Motorcyclist hospitalised with life-threatening injuries after four-vehicle crash in Co Kerry – The Journal
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#collision : a striking together, as of two hard bodies
- French: collision
- German: die Kollision
- Italian: collisione
- Portuguese: colisão
- Spanish: colisión
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Surrey police say a 9-year-old has died after collision with large vehicle
By Wolfgang Depner The Canadian Press Posted December 7, 2025 5:57 pm Updated December 7, 2025 6:20 pm…
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The Big Splat Theory
Coroner calls for safety action following death of Swansea solicitor Emily Thornton-Sandy
His action follows the devastating collision in which Emily died after another driver travelled the wrong way down the dual carriageway. The coroner recorded a conclusion of Road Traffic Collision.
Emily, from Pontarddulais, had been travelling home from a veterinary appointment at around midday on 5 November 2024 when the collision occurred between Pont Abraham and Cross Hands.
Her dog, Scout, sadly died shortly afterwards. Emily was taken to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff but died six days later from catastrophic injuries. The collision involved two other vehicles.
At the inquest on 3 December 2025 at Llanelli Town Hall, Senior Coroner Paul Bennett said a 90-year-old driver had pulled out of a junction on the eastbound side of the A48 near Cross Hands, leaving Emily no time to react. Two other vehicles were also struck in the tragic sequence of events.
Evidence from Dyfed-Powys Police confirmed that the road was in good condition, the weather was dry and overcast, visibility was clear, and the junction already had a sign instructing drivers to turn left. No emergency braking marks were found, and both drivers were wearing seatbelts.
The inquest also heard that the driver who caused the collision had been seen by a medic at his home two days earlier after experiencing a sudden loss of consciousness. He was assessed following the episode but, the court heard, there had been no medical instruction or clear indication at that time that he should not continue driving.
In light of the evidence, the coroner confirmed he will raise concerns with the South Wales Trunk Road Agency and Carmarthenshire Council about the junction from which the other driver exited moments before the fatal crash.
Emily’s family have welcomed the decision, hoping it will draw attention to long-standing safety concerns on a stretch of road where Dyfed-Powys Police recorded 169 crashes in just 12 months. However, they remain gravely concerned that further markings alone will not prevent future incidents, given that clear signage is already in place.
Emily’s family have described her as intelligent, kind and compassionate, devoted to her work supporting people affected by asbestos exposure, and passionate about literature and houseplants. Three people benefited from organ donation following her heartbreaking death.
During the inquest, where the family were represented by Thompsons Solicitors, statements from Emily’s husband and parents were read out.
Her husband, Stuart, said he would do all he could to prevent other families suffering similar loss. He said:
“Nobody should have to see their wife as I saw Emily in hospital. Emily lost her life, and I lost my future. I never envisaged living my life without her. I felt like I lost purpose when I lost Emily and Scout.”
Emily’s parents described her death as an avoidable tragedy and urged people to speak up if they have concerns about the driving ability of an elderly relative, in the hope that it may prevent another family enduring such unbearable grief.
Helen Shakespeare, Partner at Thompsons Solicitors and the family’s legal representative, said:
“Emily’s death was devastating to all who knew and loved her. The inquest has shown that what happened was entirely avoidable.
“The family therefore welcome the coroner’s decision to raise concerns with the highways authorities, but they remain deeply worried that more meaningful action is needed to address the wider safety issues on a road where so many serious incidents have occurred.”
[Lead image: Family photo]
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First Time Ever Match Confirmed For AEW Collision Winter Is Coming - https://www.wrestlingnewssource.com/news/96667/First-Time-Ever-Match-Confirmed-For-AEW-Collision-Winter/ #aew #winteriscoming #collision
AEW Collision Adds Sit Down Segment Ahead Of Women’s Tag Title Finals - https://www.wrestlingnewssource.com/news/96656/AEW-Collision-Adds-Sit-Down-Segment-Ahead-Of-Womens/ #aew #collision
Woman in hospital after 2-vehicle Scarborough collision
Toronto police say a woman in her 20s was transported to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after a two-vehicle crash in Scarborough. The collision occurred around 10:38 p.m. at the Kennedy Road and Park Street intersection. Police say both drivers remained at the scene , #Woman #hospital #2vehicle #Scarborough #collision
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Negative effects of #CarCulture in the #Midlands (the #Detroit of #Britain in more ways than one) go a lot deeper - a middle aged man (older than me!) is serving a long stretch (7-8 years+) for the fatal #collision at the #CarMeet, but looking at full video on ITV Central (I didn't link it as you need to fiddle with adblockers to watch it), bereaved parents turned up to see the offenders car crushed in an modified Overfinch LandRover - its likely they also fuelled/enabled their son's interest in #cars which led to him turning up at the ill-fated meet
Surely the old bill should have stomped on these meets a lot sooner, but its likely the Roads Policing Unit is simply overwhelmed there as many offenders don't attract much other attention from Police)
Emirates Airbus A380 Grounded After Fuel Truck Collision At Manchester Airport http://dlvr.it/TPYJl0 #AirbusA380 #aircraft #Airlines #collision
Woman in 80s sent to hospital after North York collision
A woman in her 80s is in the hospital after a two-vehicle crash near Fairview Mall on Sunday evening. Police say the collision occurred around 5:15 p.m. in the Don Mills Road and Sheppard Avenue East intersection. Both the drivers remained at the scene, according to police. Officers say a woman in her 80’s was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. , #Woman #80s #hospital #North #York #collision
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Multi-vehicle collision blocking Highway 401 lanes
A multi-vehicle crash is blocking several lanes on Highway 401, eastbound, east of Leslie Street in the collector lanes, according to police. Officers say the multi-vehicle crash occurred Sunday evening, and the injuries are unknown at this time. Drivers are asked to avoid the area. More to come. , #Multivehicle #collision #blocking #Highway #lanes
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AEW Collision Thanksgiving Results - November 27, 2025 - https://www.wrestlingnewssource.com/news/96577/AEW-Collision-Thanksgiving-Results-November-27-2025/ #aew #tnt #tbs #hbomax #results #collision
A devastating traffic collision on the B51 federal highway, linking Trier and Bitburg, has claimed the lives of four individuals, prompting scrutiny over road s... https://news.osna.fm/?p=23926 | #news #claims #collision #fatal #four
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“Sometimes that light at the end of the tunnel is a train”*…
The moment of impact
As the U.S. remained mired in an economic depression in 1896, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad (commonly known as “the Katy” line) faced two major problems: how to boost revenue and ticket sales amid increasing competition in the rail industry and what to do with an aging fleet of locomotives as it upgraded to larger, more advanced steam engines. And so the company’s creative passenger agent for Texas, William Crush, pitched an idea that would address both problems in one spectacular fell swoop.
With atom bombs and Justin Bieber still far off on the horizon in the late 19th century, an explosive train collision was perhaps the most eye-catching manmade disaster imaginable. And Crush knew he had the trains, the space and the public appetite to attempt such a spectacle. His plan was simple: ferry paying spectators to an isolated locale where two obsolete locomotives would be positioned face-to-face on the tracks. After gunning the trains to full speed, the engineers would jump to safety, and the masses would enjoy the fiery demolition from a safe distance. “Oh,” the exuberant Crush effused to The Galveston Daily News, “but it’s going to be a smash-up”…
In the event, over 40,000 people gathered at in the temporary town of “Crush, Texas” (for the day, the second largest city in the State). And what a “smash-up” they saw. As planned, the engineers stoked their locomotives, got them steaming toward each other, and jumped clear… But though Crush had been assured by the railroad’s technicians that the engines’ boilers were strong enough to hold together on impact, both exploded. As The Dallas Morning News put it: “The rumble of the two trains was like the gathering force of a cyclone… [then, a huge explosion, and] the air was filled with flying missiles of iron and steel varying in size from a postage stamp to half of a driving wheel… black clouds of death-dealing iron hail.” Three spectators were killed, six others seriously injured; and countless onlookers were scorched by the hot shrapnel — many long after the explosion, when they picked through the flaming locomotive carcasses in a hunt for souvenirs.
Crush was immediately fired from the railroad. But given a lack of negative publicity, he was rehired the next day.
Read more at “Staging a Texas-size train disaster for fun and profit,” and check out the photos from the event here (one of which is used above).
* Charles Barkley
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As we ruminate on the rails, we might send foresightful birthday greetings to the extraordinary Jules Verne, imaginative writer non pareil; he was born in Nantes on this date in 1828.
Best known for his novels A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869–1870), Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) and The Mysterious Island (1875), Verne is the second most translated (individual) author of all time (behind Agatha Christie). He is considered, with H.G. Wells, the founder of science fiction.
Verne was startlingly prescient: Paris in the 20th Century, for example, describes air conditioning, automobiles, the Internet, television, even electricity, and other modern conveniences very similar to their real world counterparts, all developed years– in many cases, decades– later. From the Earth to the Moon, apart from using a space gun instead of a rocket, is uncannily similar to the real Apollo Program: three astronauts are launched from the Florida peninsula– from “Tampa Town” ( only 130 miles from NASA’s Cape Canaveral)– and recovered through a splash landing. And in other works, he predicted helicopters, submarines, projectors, jukeboxes, and the existence of underwater hydrothermal vents that were not invented/discovered until long after he wrote about them.
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Man charged after pregnant woman struck by car and killed in Sydney
A man has been charged after a woman who was eight months pregnant died when she was struck…
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#driving #collision #rearend #trafficLight #transmission
This afternoon I was rearended by an inexperienced driver in a hurry; we both survived uninjured, albeit shaken. I saw a few lessons; I welcome additional observations.
The light turned yellow as my Savana approached a major intersection. I stopped and put it in Park. Boomp! I was pushed into the intersection; boomp! pushed further. I was in Park! How come I was rolling? Fortunately, my brakes stopped me. I went back to the Corolla that had hit me. I asked, “Did your brakes go?” She apologized profusely, and said she’d assumed I would roll through the yellow.
I was flabbergasted that my van kept rolling into the intersection. I don’t know whether that’s the nature of automatic transmissions’ Park setting, that once the vehicle is nudged, being in Park doesn’t make it stop—likely--or rather that her car was still pushing my van right in the intersection.
At first I was disturbed that she hit me Boomp; Boomp; then I realized that maybe she rammed me once, and then the air bag affected her control.
I still don’t have her name and insurance info, but when the police report eventually is posted, it should be there, so I can pass it on to my agent.
I applaud her for owning up to the police. I am grateful that her air bag protected her. I’m grateful that I wasn’t driving my wife’s little hybrid. And I learned that yes, a sedan can not only bang up a ¾ ton van but shove it a few car lengths.
