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Ten Years After Brazil Mine Disaster, Pollution Persists
A decade after a dam collapsed in Brazil, sending a deluge of toxic mud into villages and waterways, residents complain of an inadequate cleanup and compensation by international mining firms.
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Harrison Ford Says His Wife Doesnt Fly With Him In Vintage Planes After 2015 Plane Crash
Harrison Ford crashed a vintage World War II aircraft on a golf course in Santa Monica, California, in March 2015.
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Family Of Maharashtra Man Killed In Accident In 2015 To Get Rs 29 Lakh Aid
The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Maharashtra's Palghar district has awarded a compensation of Rs 29.12 lakh to the mother and son of a man killed in 2015 in an accident of a car registered in his wife's name.
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More Than 470 Died In Mumbai Road Accidents In 2018: Report
As many as 475 people, half of them pedestrians, lost their lives in "preventable" road mishaps in Mumbai in 2018, representing a 22 per cent decline in fatalities since 2015, according to a report by the traffic police department.
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Car Plows Into School Children In China, 5 Dead, Horrific Pics Go Viral
A car rammed a group of students crossing a street in front of an elementary school in China's northeastern Liaoning province Thursday, causing an unknown number of casualties, state media said.
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50,000 People Killed In Train Accidents In 2 Years, Says Railways' Data
Nearly 50,000 people have lost their lives between 2015 and 2017 on railway tracks after being hit by trains, according to official data from the Indian Railways.
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This Mumbai Man Fills Potholes To Save Lives, "Honour" His Dead Son
Dadarao Bilhore smoothes the road surface, rests his shovel, looks to the sky and prays for his son, who was killed in an accident caused by a pothole. Prakash Bilhore, a promising student, was just 16 when he died in July 2015 in Mumbai. To help deal with his grief, Prakash's devastated father Dadarao decided he would do something about Mumbai's n...
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When BA Plane Was On Fire, Exit Slides Were Unusable- And Other Faults
Most emergency exits were blocked in a chaotic race to escape a blazing British Airways Plc jet that aborted its takeoff in Las Vegas almost three years ago, investigators found in the latest probe of a violent jet engine failure.
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$7.5 Million For Man Who Broke Hip While Buying Watermelon At Walmart
Army veteran Henry Walker was trying to buy a watermelon at a Walmart in Alabama when his foot got stuck in a wooden pallet. When he turned, the 59-year-old fell, breaking his hip. Walker sued Walmart over the 2015 accident, and a jury has now ruled that he should be awarded $7.5 million.
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Mercedes-Benz Patents External Pedestrian Airbags
Following on the lines of Volvo's development of an external airbag, Mercedes-Benz have patented a new A-pillar mounted external airbag setup that will help reduce the injury of the accident victims by reducing the impact between the pedestrian and the windshield.
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Ten Years After Brazil Mine Disaster, Pollution Persists
A decade after a dam collapsed in Brazil, sending a deluge of toxic mud into villages and waterways, residents complain of an inadequate cleanup and compensation by international mining firms.
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Harrison Ford Says His Wife Doesnt Fly With Him In Vintage Planes After 2015 Plane Crash
Harrison Ford crashed a vintage World War II aircraft on a golf course in Santa Monica, California, in March 2015.
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Family Of Maharashtra Man Killed In Accident In 2015 To Get Rs 29 Lakh Aid
The Motor Accident Claims Tribunal (MACT) in Maharashtra's Palghar district has awarded a compensation of Rs 29.12 lakh to the mother and son of a man killed in 2015 in an accident of a car registered in his wife's name.
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More Than 470 Died In Mumbai Road Accidents In 2018: Report
As many as 475 people, half of them pedestrians, lost their lives in "preventable" road mishaps in Mumbai in 2018, representing a 22 per cent decline in fatalities since 2015, according to a report by the traffic police department.
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Car Plows Into School Children In China, 5 Dead, Horrific Pics Go Viral
A car rammed a group of students crossing a street in front of an elementary school in China's northeastern Liaoning province Thursday, causing an unknown number of casualties, state media said.
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50,000 People Killed In Train Accidents In 2 Years, Says Railways' Data
Nearly 50,000 people have lost their lives between 2015 and 2017 on railway tracks after being hit by trains, according to official data from the Indian Railways.
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This Mumbai Man Fills Potholes To Save Lives, "Honour" His Dead Son
Dadarao Bilhore smoothes the road surface, rests his shovel, looks to the sky and prays for his son, who was killed in an accident caused by a pothole. Prakash Bilhore, a promising student, was just 16 when he died in July 2015 in Mumbai. To help deal with his grief, Prakash's devastated father Dadarao decided he would do something about Mumbai's n...
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When BA Plane Was On Fire, Exit Slides Were Unusable- And Other Faults
Most emergency exits were blocked in a chaotic race to escape a blazing British Airways Plc jet that aborted its takeoff in Las Vegas almost three years ago, investigators found in the latest probe of a violent jet engine failure.
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$7.5 Million For Man Who Broke Hip While Buying Watermelon At Walmart
Army veteran Henry Walker was trying to buy a watermelon at a Walmart in Alabama when his foot got stuck in a wooden pallet. When he turned, the 59-year-old fell, breaking his hip. Walker sued Walmart over the 2015 accident, and a jury has now ruled that he should be awarded $7.5 million.
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Mercedes-Benz Patents External Pedestrian Airbags
Following on the lines of Volvo's development of an external airbag, Mercedes-Benz have patented a new A-pillar mounted external airbag setup that will help reduce the injury of the accident victims by reducing the impact between the pedestrian and the windshield.
