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 »

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 »

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 »

Violet Jessop

The unsinkable Molly Brown should nod her head at this survivor of Star Line sister ships Olympic, Titanic, and Britannic. Go »

Wesley Autrey

How many New Yorkers would lay down their lives for a stranger? Or lay down beside a subway train, for that matter? Go »