Accident

The popular chef was set to marry her girlfriend, Brittanie Lynn Ritchie, in October.

A child is seriously hurt after falling from a balcony in Laurel, officials say.  The child reportedly fell about 12 feet off a balcony in the 8800 block of Hunting Lane, the Prince George’s County fire department said.  Crews were dispatched to the address at about 12:45 p.m. The child was unresponsive and was rushed to a trauma center...

The car plunged off a Milwaukee, Wis., overpass and hit another ramp below before landing.

Ashley Judd “shattered” her leg in four places while in the Congo, she revealed during an Instagram Live with The New York Times’ Nicholas Kristof.

22-year-old Joe DiMeo of New Jersey is the world’s first successful face and double-hand transplant.

A Nebraska state trooper’s dash cam captured the moment a frosty road caused a car to fishtail across multiple lanes. The state trooper was able to pull over and provide help. Neither the driver nor the passenger suffered injuries.

A child is injured after falling from a fourth-floor balcony in New Carrollton, officials say.  The child fell in the 5500 block of Karen Elaine Drive. Prince George’s County Fire and EMS units were dispatched at about 2:10 p.m.  The child initially had injuries described as life-threatening but then was in stable condition, the fire department said.  Fire officials...

A Texas child is dead after accidentally shooting himself in the chest during his birthday party, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office.

In a video taken last Saturday, 2-year-old Ezechial Nguemezi is full of joy. His mother and grandmother didn’t know the footage would show part of their last hours together.  Ezechial fell from a third-story window of his family’s apartment in Takoma Park at about 1:30 p.m. last Sunday. Neighbors tried to save him but he later died.  “Ezechial, I...

A construction worker has died after having an accident while working at a construction site in D.C. on Monday morning.  Police said the man was “struck in the head by a metal object” at the construction site on 601 Independence Ave SW. The worker later died after he was transported to a hospital with “very critical life threatening injuries,”...

Mary Maloney, 13, was having fun tumbling on her trampoline when she landed oddly on her head and neck.

The Oscar-winning actress says she recently had an accident involving a chainsaw at her home in England.

Nineteen-year-old Amayah Charles was pronounced dead after the car she was in collided with another and rolled over.

A jury convicted a D.C. firefighter of stealing a pair of luxury shoes at gunpoint. Jackie Bensen reports.

A Virginia woman who says she was injured in a electric scooter incident has been contacted by the scooter company following a News4 report.

A Virginia woman says she had to jump off of an electric scooter moving 15 mph to avoid oncoming traffic because the rented scooter’s brakes weren’t working.

Nanette Bass says she was forced to choose between riding into oncoming traffic or jumping off her scooter after its braking mechanism failed, causing her multiple injuries. Now, she wants Bird to be accountable for the mechanical error that’s caused her to miss work to recover. News4’s Adam Tuss reports.

More than 30 people were injured after a train crashed into another train that was parked at the 69th Street Transportation Center in Upper Darby.

A school bus with approximately 42 children and adults onboard flipped onto its side on the NJ Turnpike in East Brunswick, but there were no fatalities or serious injuries, police said.

At least three teenagers died when a 15-year-old girl driving a stolen car crashed on a Long Island parkway, a violent rollover accident that launched the vehicle off the highway and into thick brush, state police said Friday.