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Top Italian football manager takes cycling challenge after relegation bet

FC Crotone manager Davide Nicola is making good on a promise to cycle the length of Italy after his team avoided relegation on the final day of the season.

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Car crash in New York's Times Square

One person died and several people were injured when a car crashed in Times Square, New York City, on Thursday, May 18.

USA

Times Square crash suspect charged with second degree murder

Richard Rojas, the suspected driver of a car that ploughed into pedestrians in New York City’s Times Square, has been charged with murder in the second degree, aggravated vehicular homicide and multip

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Sport

Italian cyclist Scarponi killed in traffic collision

37-year-old struck by a van on a training ride, according to his team

Italy

Italian cycling champion Michele Scarponi killed in road accident

The sporting world is mourning the death of the Italian cycling champion Michele Scarponi.

United Kingdom

Drunk driver launches car, and her 19-month-old child, over roundabout

A 32-year-old woman has been jailed for dangerous driving after speeding and launching her car nearly 5 metres into the air after “crashing into a…

World News

Need for speed? How European countries compare

There’s no doubt that driving too fast is dangerous.

2 February 2017

France

Dozens hurt in motorway pile-up near Paris

A motorway pile-up in France has left at least 65 people injured, five of them in a serious condition.

30 January 2017

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USA: train smashes into lorry

A train ploughed into a lorry after an apparent problem at a railroad crossing in Utah.

25 January 2017

World News

Three killed and 20 injured as car ploughs into Melbourne pedestrians

A driver has ploughed his car into pedestrians in a busy street in Melbourne, Australia, killing three people including a young child

20 January 2017

China

[Watch]: Chinese highway pile-up involving 19 cars

Six people were killed and 16 others injured in a 19-car pileup on a highway in south China’s Guangdong Province on Saturday, according to the local traffic…

15 January 2017

Kenya

Kenya: dozens reported killed in oil tanker fireball

In Kenya, dozens of people are reported dead after a fireball from an oil tanker engulfed several vehicles on a main highway.

11 December 2016

Mozambique

Fuel truck explosion in Mozambique kills scores of people

Mystery surrounds deadly fuel truck explosion in Mozambique that has killed 73 people and injured 110

17 November 2016

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Bridge collapses on UK motorway

One person was injured when a footbridge collapsed over the M20 motorway in Kent, near London.

Brazil

German Olympic team coach fighting for his life after car crash at Rio Games

USA

25,000 Tesla automated cars to be examined

It comes after a driver of one of the vehicles was killed when it was in autopilot mode and was involved in a collision in the US.

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Italy: giant hole swallows cars in Florence

A 200-metre-long hole opened up along the Arno river bank in Florence, near the famous Ponte Vecchio.

France

Police shoot-out with UK-registered car in France

Occupants are suspected of involvement in people-smuggling. Dozens of migrants were found in a lorry in Belgium in what officials say was a linked operation.

USA

Porsche exonerated in Paul Walker, Roger Rodas crash

A judge has dismissed a lawsuit claiming Porsche was responsible for crash that killed fast and furious actor Paul Walker and his friend Roger Rodas.