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ACCIDENTS

ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 30, 2015
China sends 14 officials to prison over 2013 oil pipeline blast
China has sentenced 14 former officials at state energy firm Sinopec and the local government to jail for up to five years for their role in a massive oil pipeline explosion in 2013, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2015
Japan car insurer sets up translation service amid rising numbers of foreigners at the wheel
A major insurer is offering interpretation in five languages for motorists reporting accidents by phone, amid an influx of foreign visitors and the expectation that the fender bender rate will rise.
Japan Times
BUSINESS / Tech
Nov 26, 2015
Smartphones may have role in rise of U.S. traffic deaths
The number of deaths from traffic accidents in the United States jumped 8.1 percent in the first half of 2015, suggesting smartphones and other driving distractions could be making America's roadways more dangerous, officials said on Tuesday.
JAPAN
Nov 26, 2015
Philippines to probe 'sudden acceleration' in Mitsubishi vehicles
Philippine regulators will investigate accidents involving Mitsubishi Motors Corp.'s Montero Sport vehicles after complaints that they can speed out of control.
WORLD
Nov 19, 2015
Colorado woman kills 38 sheep in crash, charged with drunken driving
A 47-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after her vehicle plowed into a flock of sheep in southwestern Colorado, killing 38 of them, police said on Wednesday.
WORLD
Nov 12, 2015
Corpulent Canadian suffers fatal heart attack, squashes wife in Mexico
A middle-aged Canadian couple died in a sexual embrace at a Mexican resort after the corpulent husband suffered a heart attack in a hot tub and squashed his slender wife, authorities said on Wednesday.
WORLD
Oct 28, 2015
Nevada cryotherapy center where worker died is closed because it lacked insurance
Nevada officials on Tuesday ordered the closure of a cryotherapy center just outside Las Vegas where police say a worker was found dead last week in a chamber that exposes a person's body to extremely cold air.
WORLD
Oct 26, 2015
Five dead, one missing as whale watching vessel sinks off Canada coast
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COMMUNITY / Voices / OVERHEARD
Oct 24, 2015
The laugh's on him
Can we go?
WORLD
Oct 16, 2015
Belgian tourist dies after falling into Chilean geyser
A Belgian woman who suffered burns on 80 percent of her body after falling into a boiling hot geyser last week in northern Chile died on Thursday, the Santiago hospital where she was receiving treatment said.
WORLD
Oct 14, 2015
Cockpit reconstruction tells story of MH17's last moments
The reconstruction of the wreckage of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 tells its own vivid story of the impact of the missile that destroyed the aircraft last July, killing all 298 people on board.

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