Accidents and Emergency Incidents

Authorities have recovered the wreckage of a four-wheel drive after it plunged over a steep cliff at a remote WA beach, killing Matthew Farr and Louis Eeles, and seriously injuring a third.

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One man died and another was rescued after a boating accident south-west of Melbourne, while a scuba diver was found unconscious off the Mornington Peninsula.

Police said Aroulen Chinnien, who was in his 20s, and woman in her 30s died after being hit by the train at Berowra Railway Station about midnight.

US politicians had been pressuring the company to withdraw the request following a harrowing mid-air cabin blowout on January 5 that exposed numerous safety and quality control concerns at one of the world's two major jet makers.

It is believed Garry Mallen suffered a medical episode about 8:30am while at the fire scene in Portland, Victoria.

A study of tens of thousands of Victorian cases finds women in cardiac arrest are only half as likely as men to receive defibrillation from a bystander — some telling investigators they feared exposing the patient's chest.

Former workers of aviation giant Boeing allege the aircraft manufacturer has cut corners on its production line to meet deadlines, resulting in defects going unnoticed and compromising safety.

People attempted CPR after the boy was injured at Old Bar but the two-year-old died a short time later.

A young apprentice jockey has been airlifted to the Royal Adelaide Hospital after falling off her horse at Strathalbyn Racecourse.

The rescue of a man and his dog from floodwaters in Victoria has highlighted a shortage of State Emergency Service volunteers in regional and rural areas, with it taking an hour for a non-local unit to get to the scene.

Police say an e-scooter rider, who suffered serious head injuries, had been speeding away from a police vehicle in the moments before the crash in Townsville's city centre.

Kim Kwang-ho, head of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, has been charged with professional negligence over the deadly 2022 Halloween crush that killed nearly 160 people, prosecutors said.

Thirteen schoolchildren die in a dormitory fire in central China's Henan province, Chinese state media reports.

Emergency services resume their search for a man who is still missing after seven people became caught in a rip at a beach near Sleaford yesterday afternoon.

Australia has committed to an ambitious target of zero road deaths by 2050, but if the current trend continues, that's near impossible. So what's going wrong?

An explosion at a fireworks factory in central Thailand killed at least 23 people on Wednesday, according to a rescue worker.

An 11-year-old boy and 26-year-old woman are dead after a car hit a tree and burst into flames near Echuca.

The FAA says its investigation is focusing on door plugs like the one that recently blew off an Alaska Airlines 737 Max 9 aircraft during a flight, and Boeing says it will cooperate with that probe and another being conducted by the National Transportation Safety Board. 

SA Police says a white SUV hit the train at a level crossing on Skewes Road on Wednesday afternoon. The driver of the car was taken to hospital as a precaution.

Bob Sauer, a science teacher in Portland, Oregon, discovered the Alaska Airlines door plug sitting among the trees in his backyard.

Footage shows firefighters picking their way through piles of drywall, shattered glass and metal scattered outside the Fort Worth hotel.

Jordan Kenyon, the unlicensed driver of a car involved in a fatal collision near Geelong which killed a 12-year-old girl, is remanded in custody.

The three adults and two guides have been stuck in the Križna Jama cave since Saturday when water levels rose inside, blocking the way out.

The aircraft lost a window and a piece of fuselage, forcing it to make an emergency landing in Portland, Oregon.