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These Pictures Of A Car After A Car Crash Are Horrifying

Car crashes are completely awful things. Shattered glass, twisted metal and giant machines reduced to child’s playthings. And that’s not even considering the possibility of accidental deaths. Photographer Nicolai Howalt captured the horrors of a car crash by photographing the silent disaster of the aftermath.

9 March 2013

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Boeing Never Fully Tested The Dreamliner Battery That Caught Fire

Two months after Boeing’s new 787 Dreamliner was grounded, investigators are still trying to figure out what caused a battery on one of the planes to catch fire. Apex reports that the latest information indicates the battery was never fully tested.

8 March 2013

Science

A Vacuum Turns This Flexible Fabric Into A Stiff Cast

Immobilising a broken bone immediately after an accident is an important step to prevent further injury. So Spanish researchers have developed a new type of fabric that can instantly go from flexible to stiff, without putting uncomfortable pressure on the patient’s skin.

23 February 2013

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US Woman Shot By Oven

Among items on the short list of “things that shouldn’t be stored in an oven,” live ammunition ranks near the top — just below live babies and gasoline. That’s because, as Myth Busters has taught us and one Florida woman learned this week, live ammo and high temperatures make for an explosive combination.

13 February 2013

Online

The Caleb Moore Crash: Watching Someone Die For Fun And Profit

Caleb Moore, 25, crashed during the X Games freestyle finals on January 24. A week later, he died of complications from his injuries. The fatal crash has been uploaded to YouTube dozens of times by perverse opportunists, viewed by millions of post-ironic eyeballs, and sponsored by a herd of unsuspecting advertisers. By any measure, it’s one of the most popular snuff films in history.

17 January 2013

News

Helicopter Crash In Central London Kills Two

A helicopter has crashed into a crane in Vauxhall, London, after it failed to see the structure due to thick fog.

16 January 2013

News

Woman Steals Train, Crashes It Into A Building

Last night in Saltsjöbanan, Sweden, a young woman decided to try her hand at driving a train. It didn’t end well: she careered off the track and straight into this house.

10 January 2013

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Video: Watch A Wedding In A Hot Air Balloon Crash

If rain on your wedding day is a bad sign, then what is having your wedding ceremony interrupted because your hot air balloon crashed? That’s what happened to poor Jonathan and Kerin Narcisse, who exchanged their vows in a hot air balloon and then had a strong gust of wind slam their hot air balloon into the ground.

7 January 2013

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The 10 Weirdest Deaths By Technology

Technology is supposed to make our lives better: our meat easier to chew, our water easier to carry, our ox carts easier to move. But all too often we weak, squishy, meat sacks of the human variety find ourselves on the wrong side of innovation.

30 November 2012

News

Look At These Two Pilots Barely Escaping Death

This is completely terrifying. These guys were probably about one second from blowing up in a jet fuel fireball, but they managed to eject with only a hair standing between them and oblivion. Barely.

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