McCluskey died at the age of 75, not as a result of exposure, but of a heart disease which he had before the accident.

* 1968 – Nerve gas accident at Skull Valley, Utah.

* 1986 – A nuclear reactor accident occurs at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union ( now Ukraine ), creating the world's worst nuclear disaster.

Yet we may with better reason suppose that it came originally from a foreign mythology, and that the accident of its numerical value in Greek merely caused it to be singled out at Alexandria for religious use.

* 2009 – An accident at the Sayano – Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area.

* 1945 – Physicist Harry K. Daghlian, Jr. is fatally irradiated in a criticality accident during an experiment with the Demon core at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Jackson's father died in an accident in February 1767, at the age of 29, three weeks before his son Andrew was born in the Waxhaws area.

He died in Banyuls at the age of eighty-three, in an automobile accident.

* Traumatic amputation ( an unwanted amputation that occurs at the scene of an accident, where the limb is partially or wholly severed as a direct result of the accident, for example a fingertip that is cut off by a meat grinder ).

In August 1919, at the age of nine, Capp lost his left leg in a trolley accident.

This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

The theme song introduces the viewer to the world's most fortunate hunting accident – whereby Jed shoots at game but instead hits " black gold, Texas tea ": he had discovered oil.

Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.

Prior to 1931, New York Times reporter William Buehler Seabrook, allegedly in the interests of research, obtained from a hospital intern at the Sorbonne a chunk of human meat from the body of a healthy human killed in an accident, then cooked and ate it.

This accident, as well as a similar accident that led to the death of Russell Phillips at Charlote, led NASCAR to mandate the " Earnhardt Bar ", a metal brace located in the center of the windshield that reinforces the roof in case of a similar crash.

At the 2001 Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway on February 18, 2001, Earnhardt was involved in a car accident after the final lap, in which Earnhardt's car was pushed into the wall nose-first by Ken Schrader's car at an estimated speed of.

* Kindu rail accident, on November 29, at least 60 people were killed

* 1987 – An Israeli army tank transporter kills four Palestinian refugees and injures seven others during a traffic accident at the Erez Crossing on the Israel – Gaza Strip border, sparking the First Intifada.

In 1968, he studied glass in Venice on a Fulbright Fellowship and received a Master of Fine Arts at the Rhode Island School of Design. In 1971, with the support of John Hauberg and Anne Gould Hauberg, Chihuly founded the Pilchuck Glass School near Stanwood, Washington. About the Pilchuck Glass School from their websiteIn 1976, while Chihuly was in England, he was involved in a head-on car accident during which he flew through the windshield. Glass Houses: Dale Chihuly Files a Lawsuit That Raises Big Questions ... About Dale Chihuly, a February 2006 article from The Stranger His face was severely cut by glass and he was blinded in his left eye.

In his memory, the Dowager Queen Maria arranged to establish a King's chapel at the accident place, which was consecrated one year later.

Miles died in a testing accident in the J-car ( later to become the Mk IV ) at Riverside ( CA ) Raceway just two months later.

In 2002 with four-time champion Tommi Mäkinen installed as his new team mate in the light of Burns ' departure to Peugeot, Solberg won his first ever WRC event in Wales ( Wales Rally GB ) after a consistent display of driving prowess and an unlikely accident by Marcus Grönholm.

At the 1000 Lakes Rally, Toivonen retired due to an accident during the 11th special stage.

Close to death after a major accident on the 1985 Rally Argentina, Vatanen spent 18 months winning a personal health battle over serious injury and depression.

His most notable result that year was a podium finish on Rally Argentina, the first time he had contested the event since his accident there nine years previously.

The 1974 event was marred by the first fatal accident for a competitor in the World Rally Championship.

McRae was, though, to have one more opportunity at world championship level: he was unexpectedly entered for his final rally by semi-works Kronos Citroën at Rally Turkey in September, where he replaced Sébastien Loeb while the Frenchman recovered from an injury he sustained in a cycling accident immediately prior to the event.

McRae's former rival, four-time World Rally Champion Tommi Mäkinen commented the helicopter accident as terrifying news, and described McRae as " a pleasant fellow and a tough rival ".

Mouton's 1982 season started with a big accident at the Monte Carlo Rally.

The Rally of Brazil was marred by the fatal accident of Brazilian driver Thomas Fuchs, and featured chaotic conditions as parts of the course were not successfully closed for competition.

He added a fine second place finish on the Wales Rally GB, somewhat ill-starred by the fatal accident that befell erstwhile Ford team-mate Markko Martin's navigator, Michael Park.

The partnership was successful from the outset: Mikkola led the 1981 Monte Carlo Rally, the Audi's first event, until an accident put him out of the event.

Congestion caused by a road accident, Algarve, Portugal.

He won the next race in Portugal which was overshadowed by the accident involving Mansell and Senna, and then finished second at the next race in Spain.

He was born in Lisbon, Portugal, and died in a horse-riding accident on the banks of the river Tagus.

Roy Campbell died in a car accident near Setúbal, Portugal, on Easter Monday, 1957 when a car driven by his wife hit a tree.

Category: Road accident deaths in Portugal

Category: Road accident deaths in Portugal

The critical responses following this accident made him leave Great Britain, and he continued to make ascents in Italy, Spain and Portugal.

Duarte Nuno, however, did not return to Portugal until 1952 on account of a car accident in Thionville in which he was seriously injured.

Category: Road accident deaths in Portugal