A Salvation Army thrift store in Grand Junction, Colorado was crowded with holiday shoppers when a part of its roof suddenly collapsed, momentarily trapping 22 people inside. According to a news report, a portion of the thrift store’s ceiling collapsed onto the first floor. Store employees feared that one person had been trapped in the…
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…
Two Orange County women were crossing Adams Avenue about 40 feet from Pinecreek Drive when they were hit by a Ford F150 truck. The pickup truck was pulling out of the Adams Avenue parking area at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa, California. The driver had waited for other pedestrians to cross in a nearby…
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…
A 69-year old tourist from Arkansas nearly hanged himself by accident while posing for a picture at the Boot Hill Museum in Dodge City, Kansas. The man got more than he bargained for while trying to experience a “hanging tree” on the block-long replica of a Wild West street. The man lost consciousness while standing…
An eleven-year-old Orange County boy was riding his bike to school when he was hit by a van and hospitalized with head injuries. The 1970 Volkswagen van struck him around 8:30 a.m. near Brookdale Lane and Sunridge Drive in Huntington Beach, California. The accident occurred just blocks from Isaac Sowers Middle School in a residential…
A judge in Morris County, New Jersey recently increased a $100,000 pain and suffering award to $1 million in a product liability lawsuit against Yamaha Motors Company, the manufacturer of the snowmobile involved in the plaintiff’s accident. The case is unusual because judges are far more likely to reduce an award (called remittitur) than adjust…
A 64-year-old man in a wheelchair fell onto the BART tracks and was hit by a train at the Hayward BART station in the California Bay Area. The victim, Curtis Fuller, survived, but was treated at the trauma center at Eden Medical Center and admitted to the critical care unit. Witnesses say Fuller appeared to…
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.…
