Six in Minivan Survive 400-Foot Plunge
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Six people in a minivan survived a 400-foot plunge down a slope in the Colorado Rockies, apparently because they were wearing seat belts.
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Grant Wharington and the 15 crew members of his 98-foot Skandia were safe in Hobart last night but &quot;lucky to be alive&quot; after transferring to two life-rafts, as their super-maxi wallowed upside-down in rough seas, 80 miles off Tasmania.
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A crash between two cars leaves two people dead and six injured, four of them seriously.
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A small plane crashed in a shopping center parking lot, skipping across vehicles and clipping a pole before landing on a car, witnesses and authorities said. All four people aboard survived without life-threatening injuries.
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A van carrying workers to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory tumbled 200 feet off a mountain road Wednesday, killing at least four people and trapping five others, officials said.
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Investigators indicated Sunday that engine failure apparently caused a plane carrying skydivers to nosedive soon after takeoff, killing six people, including a man who was a member of the U.S. Parachute Team and had made thousands of jumps.
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A BUS careered off a mountain road in Peru and plunged 50 metres into a jungle river, killing 49 people and injuring 15 others. The accident happened in the Andean jungle, 215 miles north-east of the capital, Lima.
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A minibus carrying up to 25 school children crashes in Cheshire - one person is trapped.
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Three people celebrating a 40th birthday with a joyflight had a miraculous escape after their pilot was forced to crash-land his plane on a quiet Australian road, despite losing the aircraft's wings on the way down.
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A crew of five rescued off the coast of Cornwall after spending eight days adrift in a liferaft have spoken of their &quot;exhausting and frightening&quot; ordeal.
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A packed commuter van heading to NASA&#39;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory plunged off a wet, winding mountain road yesterday and tumbled 200 feet, killing three people.
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Five children &amp;#151; four of them siblings &amp;#151; drowned during a church outing when they were caught in a river&#039;s current, apparently while trying to help a sixth child who was rescued, authorities and the victims&#039; relatives said Monday.
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Drunkenness saved the lives of six young men who were stopped from boarding one of two planes that crashed mysteriously within minutes of each other in Russia&#39;s south, Izvestia reports.
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Forty passengers died and 19 others were hurt when their overcrowded bus plunged 100 metres (330 feet) down a ravine in western Nepal.
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Five people are rescued off the north Cornwall coast after spending eight days adrift in a life raft.
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Eleven-year-old Cydney Atkinson, left, and Lynsi Smith, 12, check out a vehicle that crashed into Retrospect Water and Light at 68 E. 700 South on Monday in Salt Lake City. The driver suffered minor injuries. "We're not sure how he ended up inside the store," said Salt Lake City Police Lt.
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SIERRA VISTA, Ariz. - A stolen sport utility vehicle that had been chased by deputies rolled over at a busy intersection near a Army post Saturday, causing an 11-car crash that killed six people and injured 15, sheriff's officials said...