Automobile Accidents, Automobile Deaths | featured news

Three major road accidents in China killed 56 people on the last day of a weeklong holiday, including 35 people who died when a bus collided with a car on a northern expressway, state media reported Saturday.

A Long Island mother was very drunk, with an extra-large bottle of vodka in her car, and was smoking marijuana before she caused a wrong-way crash on a New York highway that killed her, her young daughter and six others, police said Tuesday.

The rush-hour collision on the busy Red Line injured dozens of people. Those killed include the operator of one train. It's the first fatal crash for the Metro train system since 1982.

Authorities have yet to release blood tests for Cleveland Browns wide receiver Donte Stallworth, who authorities say fatally struck a pedestrian in Miami Beach a week ago.

Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of Zimbabwe said on Monday that a car crash that killed his wife on Friday was an accident, news reports said.

The prime minister’s party on Saturday called for an investigation into the car crash that injured Morgan Tsvangirai and killed his wife.

Zimbabwe's prime minister believes that the truck driver who struck his car and killed his wife deliberately drove toward him in an effort to take his life, members of the prime minister's party told CNN today.

Zimbabwe's new prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been involved in a car accident, his party said Friday.

Investigators were examining pieces of the drive train from an oversized truck to try to learn why a Frisbee-sized chunk of metal tore loose and killed a 6-year-old boy at a Monster Jam show in the Tacoma Dome.