A new research has found out that guns overtook car crashes to become the leading cause of death for US children and teenagers in 2020. According to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 4,300 young Americans died of firearm-related injuries in 2020. The study found out that even though suicides contributed to the toll, the homicides form the majority of gun-related deaths. In the US over 390 million guns are owned by civilians with …
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Two persons in the entourage of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan died in Abuja after a convoy crash today Wednesday, April 6. The convoy was involved in an accident while returning from Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja to his residence in the Federal Capital Territory. He had barely returned from an international assignment when the accident happened. The ex-President and his wife, Patience, have been to the emergency unit of the National Hospital, Abuja where all victims were evacuated to. Although Jonathan …
A US bound truck smuggling 170 migrants crashed on a highway in Veracruz, Mexico, on Wednesday, January 12 injuring 38 of which 8 were children. The trailer was heading to Mexico City when it crashed into a concrete road divider. The truck was disguised with fake logos to look like an official Mexican Food Ministry vehicle, bound for the US. About 132 migrants including the driver fled the scene before authorities arrived while the injured ones were taking into …
Three people have died after a small plane crashed into a residential building in the German city of Wesel, around 35 miles north of Dusseldorf, on Saturday afternoon. Police said the roof of the apartment building caught fire after the microlight plane crashed into it. Witnesses told local media that they saw the aircraft collide with a hot-air balloon shortly before the crash, which also injured a child. The injured child is thought to have been …
A three-year-old boy has died in a car crash after the vehicle he was in slammed into a shop wall on Morningside Road in Edinburgh, UK. A 37 year old woman who was driving the car around 2.30pm on Tuesday climbed the pavement and hit the wall outside St Columba’s Hospice charity shop. The woman and the boy were immediately rushed to …
A driver crashed a £200,000 Lamborghini just minutes after picking it up from the showroom. The brand new Lamborghini Huracan Spyder was smashed up on the motorway 20 minutes after the new owner had been handed the keys. The sports car stopped on the M1 near Wakefield, England, due to a mechanical failure, then another driver ploughed into the back of it. West Yorkshire Police shared photos of the damage on Twitter and wrote: “It’s only a car! “But …