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A 3-year-old boy freed himself from a safety harness. stood up and fell to his death from a roller coaster he was riding with his family at a Chicago suburban amusement park, authorities confirmed on Sunday.

A tour bus flipped onto its side and skidded into a sign post in New York on Saturday, killing 13 people and critically injuring six others, ...

Broadway actor Adam Pascal has called for the prosecution of the director of the musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" after a series of accidents, including the hospitalization of an actor who fell at least 20 feet during Monday night's performance.

A high school baseball player from Garfield, N.J. died over the weekend after being hit in the chest by a pitch during practice.

Freezing rain and ice-covered roads made for a treacherous Saturday night in Minnesota, where more than 370 crashes were reported, most of them in the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area, officials said Sunday.

Accidental falls are the leading injury-related reason why Americans seek emergency medical care, with nearly 9 million visits a year, but some ...

The lawyer shot five years ago by the then vice-president Dick Cheney told the The Washington Post Thursday that his injuries from the hunting accident were more extensive than revealed at the time.

Police say a 4-year-old boy in Texas managed to start a van and then ran over a woman and her 3-week-old child, killing the newborn.

Emergency room physicians say people often don't know what to do with a body part that's become derailed, whether it's a toe, finger, tooth or an eye that's popped out of its socket.

A minibus veered off a mountain road under construction and plunged into a river in Indian Kashmir, killing at least 17 people, a police officer said Saturday.