Accidents

These goos are from the Accidents category, people famous for their involvement in vehicular crashes and other major mistakes. Browse another way.

Ann Hodges

Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird. it's a plane. It's... Well, whatever it is, it was a big hit with this survivor. Go »

Ariel Ticona

hope waited back home Go »

Betty Lou Oliver

On one doubly unlucky day in the 1940s, she survived the fall that King Kong did not. Go »

Boban Janković

He was tenacious enough to carry his team into the playoffs, but he was not tougher than the concrete post holding up the hoop. Go »

Brian Cullinan

This accountant had one job during Hollywood's biggest night of the year, and it wasn't tweeting a photo of Emma Stone from backstage. Go »

Bridget Driscoll

Speed kills. In the UK, all it takes is 4 mph. Go »

Caleb Moore

The world of competitive snowmobiling got smaller after one winter game in 2013. Go »

Carlos Camejo

Before using a scalpel, it's probably a good idea to be sure the corpse is a corpse, of course. Go »

Catt Gallinger

This model didn't foresee the botched tattoo that cost one of her nine lives. Go »

Christian Bolok

This police chief was looking for crowds but in the moment was killed by cocks. Go »

Christopher Sheldon

bad weather, instantaneous stability, Florida coast Go »

Cocaine Bear

First, it was a black bear minding its own business in Georgia. Then, for about five minutes, it was the greatest apex predator on Earth. Now, it's a tourist exhibit, legally performing marriages at a mall in Kentucky. Go »

Corine Remande

Do you believe this sports fan envisioned riding away from a professional event with a life-changing injury? Go »

Daniel DeLaVergne

It was probably a little loco for this whitewater paddling videographer to camp out in a tunnel without respecting its purpose. Go »

Dylan Thomas

This teen linebacker from Georgia was a die-hard football fan until the sport took his life by accident. Go »

Edward Smith

Some sources say that he planned to retire after Titanic's maiden voyage. It became his final trip in an indisputable way. Go »

Jacki Botello

Confinement to a wheelchair hasn't stopped this veteran from competing in a variety of sports tournaments and being a role model for other paraplegic athletes. Go »

Jaylen Norwood

He had all kinds of painful feelings after it struck him that his attempt to get a jump on fame was going to work in the worst way. Go »

Jessica McClure

If you can't recognize this grown-up Texan, well, there's just no helping you out. Go »

John Thompson

The right of this person to keep and bear arms would not be infringed by a 1992 farming accident in North Dakota. Go »

Joseph Hazelwood

His name has been a dirty word in Alaska for a quarter century. Go »

Juliane Koepcke

This teenager did what no one else on her Peruvian flight could. Go »

Kaitlin Whipple

This may sound cold, but: See this x-ray? Will you marry me? Go »

Ken Hubbs

This baseball player's logical cure for fear of flying was to learn to fly. He got license and died in a snowstorm flight. Go »

Kostydin Yankov

Desiring to be hurled into the air by a medieval siege weapon is not the most sensible way to seek your thrills. Go »

Leonid Telyatnikov

Put out the answer before you have a meltdown. Go »

Mark Mihal

On a Mid-west golf course, the traps are treacherous. One had a Sarlacc swallow this golfer. Go »

Mary Ward

Anybody who fears dying in a car accident can at least be sure they won't be the first. Go »

Michel Pierre

This New Yorker flushed and (surprise!) got shrapnel wounds instead. Go »

Nodar Kumaritashvili

His Olympic career ended just hours before it began. Go »

Phineas Gage

You need to fail at this goo like you need another hole in your head. Go »

Pierre Levegh

One day you will understand that the mans known for his killer bank shot. Go »

Tahirah Johnson

A spinal cord injury couldn't kill this mockingbird or stop this wheelchair warrior from being beautiful. Go »

Tiffani Adams

Feeling Sleepy during a flight is normal. Waking up in a dark, freezing airplane in Toronto with a dead cell phone is not. Go »

Tori Yorgey

During her last week on the air reporting in West Virginia, she expected to be hit with a lot of farewells and memories, not with a pickup truck. Go »