47-year-old Lauren Perdriau Ward was killed by a big rig truck while riding her bicycle in Silicon Valley. The accident occurred on Alpine Road near the I-280 overpass. Investigators say it looks like the accident occurred on the left hand side of the truck. The bicycle and the truck were both traveling westbound, and police…
Maurice Hayden, 42, died after being hit in the head by a golf ball while he was working at the Mayfair Country Club in Sanford, Florida. According to a news report, Hayden was pulling weeds on the second hole of the Mayfair Country Club course when he was hit by an errant tee shot, which…
A 23-year-old Chicago Bears fan fell to his death at Soldier Field during halftime of a game between the Bears and the Philadelphia Eagles. The death has been ruled an accident by the Cook County, Illinois medical examiner’s office. According to news reports, witnesses told police that Stuart Haverty of Woodstock, Illinois, jumped over a…
An Illinois teen died while scuba diving in a Kankakee County quarry with his Venturing Crew 188 troop, a co-ed division of the Boy Scouts. Kenneth G. Uhl, who was only 16, was certified for open water diving. The diving group realized Uhl was missing during a regular safety head count. Uhl failed to surface…
Two doctors and a medical assistant at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center say at least one patient has died because of sub-standard care brought on by the negative work environment at the center’s cardiology department. The employees claim they were ignored, embarrassed and in one case- terminated for complaining to administrators about the situation that…
47-year-old Lauren Perdriau Ward was killed by a big rig truck while riding her bicycle in Silicon Valley. The accident occurred on Alpine Road near the I-280 overpass. Investigators say it looks like the accident occurred on the left hand side of the truck. The bicycle and the truck were both traveling westbound, and police…
A worker whose job it was to clean the It’s a Small World ride at Euro Disney died in a tragic accident at work while cleaning one of the ride’s boats. The ride was inadvertently turned on while he was cleaning, and the worker became trapped under one of the boats. The fifty-three year old…
Three teenage boys in a black BMW ran a red light in Los Angeles, California, causing total mayhem. The car, driven by a juvenile, hit and killed a pedestrian and then crashed into a school bus, injuring at least 20 people when the bus overturned at the intersection of East 1st Street and Soto Avenue.…
A 29-year old Canadian woman visiting California was killed in a head on collision on Highway 1 near Santa Cruz. Her infant son, Kyler, sustained two skull fractures and is in intensive care, but stable and expected to survive. Jaye Wass was driving northbound up the coast for some sightseeing after spending the afternoon in…
James Laing, 46, was killed by a hit and run driver around 3:45 pm on a Saturday afternoon while bicycling on Augora Road in Augora Hills, California. Laing, a resident of West Hills, was traveling eastbound in the bike lane, just east of Liberty Canyon Road when a car, also eastbound, hit Laing on his…
